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The Great Idaho Steak Debacle:

You can't always get what you want on a wildfire, but if you try sometimes, you might get murdered.

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May 01, 2025
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So no shit, there we were…

We got called to the Salt Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho, loaded up, and headed out. It was a type of Salmon NF fire that kicked everyone’s ass. It all started pretty Ops normal as we showed up to the incident, got some instructions to meet up with everyone at a drop point down some forest service road, and…

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