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Posts Tagged ‘wildland fire’

McClouds, Pulaskis and brush hooks? Oakland’s firefighters explain how to tackle wildland fires

By Megan Molteni | October 20, 2011 | 1

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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