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Mid Week Brief: Idaho Decides it's Ready, The Moose Fire Goes Type 1, Everything is Bigger in Texas, Flagstaff Hotshot Supt Writes Great Editorial, Remembering the Salt Fire, and Why We Take Risks.
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Mid Week Brief: Idaho Decides it's Ready, The Moose Fire Goes Type 1, Everything is Bigger in Texas, Flagstaff Hotshot Supt Writes Great Editorial, Remembering the Salt Fire, and Why We Take Risks.

Plus a Proposal in the Pines.
The Hotshot Wake Up
Jul 19, 2022
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On this week’s Mid Week Brief:

  • Idaho Decides it's Ready. The Moose Fire Goes Big in the Salmon Challis. A proposal in the pines takes place.

  • Everything is Bigger in Texas. Texas sees large outbreak of wildfire in 110 degree heat.

  • Flagstaff Hotshot Supt Writes Great Editorial published in the Arizona Daily Sun. We discuss what’s said.

  • Remembering the Salt Fire. Also in the Salmon Challis we discuss the similarities to the new Idaho fires and the entrapment that happened there.

  • Why We Take Risk. The Risk benefit analysis. Risk is part of the job.

  • Plus more…

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