Posts Tagged ‘wildland fire’
McClouds, Pulaskis and brush hooks? Oakland’s firefighters explain how to tackle wildland fires
Twenty years ago, when Oakland Fire Department Captain Ian McWhorter was out on the burning hills, joining hundreds of other firefighters battling a blaze that took 25 lives and destroyed over 3,500 homes, he was dressed for battle with a structural, not a wildland fire.
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