Ready, Aim, Fire

For the last three weeks I have been putting in fireline at a place called Peck Ranch in southern Missouri. This included cutting and dragging logs and sticks thirty feet from the line and using backpack blowers to blow around dead trees by the line. It was a long three weeks, but today it all became worth it.

I went on my first fire. It was a prescribed burn on two hundred acres of land. We used torches to light the fire from the line and watched as the flames grew. The wind helped us out but we had to be on constant watch so that the fire didn't cross over the line into an area that wasn't supposed to burn. The fire took about six hours but the time flew. I get to do another one tomorrow... I think I am going to like fire season in Missouri!!!