Hi buddies,
All the animals, kids and the firefighters has wildfire training this week, so we are ready for fire season. This included a day of class time to refresh ourselves on 130/190 training. We also practiced getting into our fire shelters (they look like a big piece of aluminum foil) and doing a pack test.
For the pact test we go to the high school and walk on their track with all our gear on. You have to walk 3 miles in 45 minutes with a pack that weighs 45 pounds. When we go out on a wildfire we will be hiking with all our equipment and packs and we need to be in good physical shape to do that.
I’m happy to announce that everyone passed the test and Max rode on Majesty’s head and cheered everyone on.
Now that our training and testing is done we will all get what is called a “red card” which is used all over the US as the certification for wildfire firefighters. If you have done your ICS training then you know that as firefighters we can go anywhere in the US and help on fires if requested. This card is what we show to the Incident Commander when we go to a fire, so he knows what we are trained in and what we can do.
Have a Happy Easter and stay safe.
Karen
