Dispatched to Ely, Nevada

One week into the detail and so far things are going pretty well. Nate messed up his ankle this morning during PT so he headed back to Miles City today along with another crewmember who had to take care of some stuff. So now we are down to five. This evening we got dispatched to a fire 100 miles south of Ely, Nevada. I drove the helitender down while the helicopter flew ahead. The helicopter and crew stopped for the night in Ely and we met them there at 2200h. We're getting briefed tomorrow but it sounds like they've got 20 fires on the district and 5 of them are still unstaffed. There are smokejumper and hotshot crew rigs in the parking lot and we know that there is atleast one more helicopter working in this area. This could turn into quite a party.