Returned

[Kaiser Kirk]

Greetings all,

Sorry for the sudden absence. I was released from the Lodge fire this weekend, and have been playing catch up with sleep and life.
I hope to get caught up here and start posting news by at least Thursday, if not sooner.

-Kirk

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Glad to hear you are safe.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I never even saw flames, wound up working evening shift 11am-3am doing GIS maps and then a day at the end on fireline rehabilitation. Saw char. Most dangerous part was probably driving home each morning, but it was only 1:15 away, so worth it. Came up just shy of 200 hours of work in 14 days.

There were 8 guys burned when a crown fire ripped over part of the line, but they were all 1st & 2nd degree and released the next day. My coworker was being a forward obsv up there, and worried he'd get cut off, as it was there was fire on both sides of his road out.