Day 5
Today is a new day and a new campground that has beautiful views of Deschutes National Forest, but also angry bears. Yes, we had a bear going around our campground, but thankfully we have our bear specialist, Pedro Chavarria, who gave us safety instructions just in case the bear gets hungry. Many of my colleagues, including myself, woke up many times at night because we heard footsteps and noises of an animal outside our tents. I am so thankful we have not taken showers and I strongly believe that was the reason we woke up alive. Enough of the bear talk. Today we visited Pacific Northwest Training Center where we had the opportunity to learn of all of the operations that included Hot Shot jumpers, aircraft fire resource, Catche Administration, and the Dispatch Control Center where many emergencies regarding fires at various forests at communicated to be planned. The Hot Shot jumpers are crews where they received extensive training on jumping from 1500 feet to fight firest and they’re