Maryland Crew Updates

The crew arrived home last night after a short but interesting assignment on the Lateral West fire where they spent much of their time working the Bull North fire (a 45 acre fire just south of the main fire in North Carolina).

After working for 2 days on the Bull North fire which was just south of Lateral North fire in North Carolina, the crew along with almost all other resources have been released. The crew is returning to Maryland Friday evening.

Crew has arrived and will be staying at the Cheasapeake Comfort Inn and Suites tonight.

Maryland is sending out its second crew of the year. They are currently slated to head to the Lateral West fire in the Great Dismal Swamp burning along the Virginia/North Carolina border. Fire updates can be found on inciweb at http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2458/

Crew is sceduled to fly out of Albuquerque NM this morning at 0945 mountain time to Harrisburg PA. No word yet on whether they will be held overnight in Harrisburg or be home this evening. Either way… Welcome Home Everyone!

Today will be the crew’s last day on the fire line. Tomorrow they will meet up with the other crews from the module at the ICP and start the demobilization process. They are expected to fly back to Harrisburg via NIFC jet Friday.

After relocating to Horseshoe Lake Staging in Zone 3 this morning, the crew is relocating this evening back to Zone 2 and will be staying on the southern end of the fire at the Strayhorse spike camp.

Crew moved today to Luna New Mexico and is in staging.

The crew finished their work of the last few days on the contingency lines they were improving and spent the day staged while the Incident Team is reevaluated tactics today. They are considering possibly taking a more direct approach than before based on changing conditions. The crew should be reassigned after the new plan is in place.
Crew is doing well and coming together nicely. No foot or medical problems either. Their base camp
is large but well run. Equipment & supply requests are delivered within 24 hrs which is always a welcome occurance.

Crew is in staging today and reports that all are healthy and in good spirits. As of 1500 eastern, they didn’t know how long they were going to be staged. Red Flag warnings are expected to return to the area starting tomorrow.

Word from the crew this evening is that everyone is in good spirits and doing well. They spent the day working in heavy down and dead Ponderosa Pine improving contingency line with a crew from Colorado. They are still working east of the fire on the New Mexico side. Day time RH has dropped as low as 6%, and night time recoveries are only making it up to 11%… it is very very dry.

MDS#1 assigned to the Wallow fire Branch 6, Division 2 prepping line for burnout. Staying in Base Camp at Reserve New Mexico. Updates on the Wallow fire can be found at http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2262/ (note site is very busy and sometimes unavailable)

Assigned to the Wallow fire.  MDS#1 is assigned to Zone 2 East. Weather is hot and dry. Winds increasing this afternoon. Relative humidity in the single digits. Red flag warning for today. Fire is burning in Ponderosa Pine. Smoke is an issue. Crews are not near the hot line.   MDS#1 is brushing out along with one of the Pennsylvania crews in Branch 1, Division 2L.

As of 6/9 MDS#1 was staged in Reserve, New Mexico awaiting an assignment (possibly to the Wallow fire in Arizona).

MDS#1 has been mobilized for New Mexico Preposition along with 4 other eastern area crews. They are mobilizing this afternoon at Madonna.

Updates concerning MDS#1 will be available here once the crew is mobilized.