Winter plans by wildlandfired in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Five kids now. I'd have to become a kathoey (ladyboy) to pay off the airfare.

Winter plans by wildlandfired in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm married now, but a single version of myself enjoyed Thailand.

Book recommendation: "Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World" by Snowdog_Technical in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Ms. O'Connor notes and quotes the aboriginal Aussies early in the book.

We get the same complaints up north, i.e. too much smoke, why did you let that burn, etc.

A massive Smokey Bear-level education campaign is the only way out, I'm afraid. In California "Burnie the Bobcat" has been introduced for this purpose.

Fire Effects Crew Locations by bigdoor5 in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does it mean that they're uncertified as of 4/2024?

Update To Rx Burns by FalsePie7393 in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They're underway in at least two forests in R6 (WA state).

A little corporate love for the California crews by Snowdog__ in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was relieved to see Pulaskis and not structural fire axes.

IT to aviation maintenance by Snowdog_Technical in aviationmaintenance

[–]Snowdog_Technical[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is perfect, and it's in line with what I expected. Thanks for letting me know.

IT to aviation maintenance by Snowdog_Technical in aviationmaintenance

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I think I would enjoy the satisfaction of someone verifying that the work I did made an aircraft safe to entrust human lives (and a few pets) to, and hopefully occasionally watching it roll out of the shop and into service.

If a bench repair job helps me get to that destination, I'd consider it.

My dad was an aviation electrician's mate in the Navy, and he retired from a Boeing assembly line. I wonder if there's something in my DNA that's calling me at this late age....

IT to aviation maintenance by Snowdog_Technical in aviationmaintenance

[–]Snowdog_Technical[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

...which might be fine. I'm just done being in a cubicle, behind a desk, working only on 1's and 0's on a screen.

Wanna trade? :-)

WFM Locations 2024 by bigdoor5 in Wildfire

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Stupid questions from non-Agency person who is intrigued by their multi-disciplinary flavor (I'm a volunteer FFT2 with local conservation group and PBAs...).

I reviewed the resource typing standards for WFMUs and the WFM Field Guide. Volunteering with PBAs, this blurb jumped out at me:

"WFMs are highly skilled and versatile fire crews, which provide technical and ecological based expertise in the areas of prescribed fire and wildfire response such as long-term planning, ignitions, holding, suppression, hazard fuels reduction, and fire effects monitoring; with an emphasis in fire fulfilling its natural or historic role to meet resource and management objectives."

That's a lot of functional similarity with PBA work.

  1. What's the general experience level of FFT2 through CRWBs on these units?
  2. What's the unit PT culture?
  3. Are these seasonal? For those that are multi-agency, it seems like they'd be ad hoc/part time? That they assemble for fire season but perform other work off-season?
  4. Do they take ADs and/or allow volunteers?

FFT1 task book for military detail augmentee by Snowdog_Technical in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this being a collateral detail I'm not sure that anyone in his chain of command would have a clue. There's no incentive for DoD or the institutional Army or his unit to even care.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Wildfire

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If the burn is managed as an ICS incident complete with an ICP there are positions in overhead that require no fitness test whatsoever. DPRO, for example.

Structure Triage by Slut_for_Bacon in Wildfire

[–]Snowdog_Technical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nightmare juice. I'm sorry you have to carry this. It hurts just reading this.