Pump Fire

This past Wednesday we flew out to a smoke report in the Moon Creek area west of Miles City. We found a sixteen acre fire on private land with several county engines and a dozer on it. We landed and began suppressing hot spots around the fire edge. I was sawing through a thick patch of juniper when we heard a dozer coming up behind us, pushing line through the areas that we had just worked. Communication and coordination isn't always the best when working with county resources and we had no idea they were pushing line around the whole fire. Having just been made redundant, we sat down and had lunch while we waited to see what needed to be done. When the CAT was done the only real hot spot left was in a drainage with a lot of dead and down woody debris and needle cast, so we spent the rest of the day mopping that area up. We usually don't stay overnight on private land fires and the duty officer pulled us off sometime around 2200h.