Dirty Hotshot | Dirty | Activity https://dirtyhotshot.com/members/kahler/activity/ Activity feed for Dirty. Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:16:34 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7fe202295dc88f14509468cd98eb1052 Dirty wrote a new post https://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=552 Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:16:34 -0700 861 Fire Mellow mission to knock some rust off and get used to a different plane.

]]> 2106632b673ab690199dca74feb94a3a Dirty wrote a new post https://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=548 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:06:50 -0700 MAFFS At KIWA

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]]> 155ac076d01945607deb72a2afd3a530 Dirty wrote a new post https://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=541 Mon, 11 Aug 2025 02:14:06 -0700 Maverick AZ-FTA 8/10 2nd SEAT 838 FLT

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]]> bb4119ed58eedb9ca12b0fca35cf1cc8 Dirty wrote a new post https://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=533 Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:59:37 -0700 ATGS Well, it’s been some time since I logged into this site. I left the crews in 2022 and moved into Dispatch to be home more for the kids. Now I’m doing air […]

]]> 79b011644e5a8b0611dfa018de94b151 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=404 Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:20:35 -0700 Written better than I have the time, ambition, and talent to do myself. Strong work.

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]]> 96578305c2c1075f104eaed063298ce3 Dirty wrote a new post https://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=340 Sun, 30 May 2021 19:36:00 -0700 Fires are fun when they’re out of control and there’s a lot going on. I get a real kick out of scouting an active fire, working to gain situational awareness and come up with an effective strategy. Once the fir […]

]]> ce2b17cae3786a8ab8ba8af7043c59f1 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=338 Sat, 22 May 2021 05:29:30 -0700 It’s been awhile since I posted anything, even longer since I posted regularly. Recently, my wife met someone from another local Hotshot Crew who knows who I am and was asking when I’d write again. I thought I h […]

]]> 0f8a7e40e2cd786483be26a983a2e09e Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=318 Sun, 10 May 2020 02:50:46 -0700 Holy shit, I’m damn near 40. Still on a crew. Still a squad boss. Still hanging in there; just a little more sore than I remember being a few years ago. Today I ran with my squad for five or six miles at high […]

]]> da7d2ca1ebc2070cb4de7135c9a6b354 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=203 Wed, 24 May 2017 07:55:00 -0700 It is 1230 in the morning and I’ve been sleeping in the woods, poorly. I’m doing a division assignment on a type 3 fire as a qualified taskforce leader and can’t stop thinking about tomorrow’s shift. Tomorrow’s […]

]]> 2c41fc385af2e43539502b914e129313 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=202 Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:59:09 -0700 Our seasonal firefighters are coming back to work on 17 April. Soon, very soon. The expectation on my crew is that everyone show up on day one in good enough physical condition to do the job. We don’t always all […]

]]> 68177cc04904273b7dcc9f682076f689 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=192 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:53:21 -0700 Personally, I don’t think we need fire shelters. I think we should just be less aggressive if we cannot provide for safety first. That being said, I’ve never had to deploy. And my superintendent has over 25 years […]

]]> b4dd74d07aedc3c738e5a914dbdca874 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=188 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:12:44 -0700 Hotshot crews provide everything a crew member needs except for boots. As of last year, the Forest Service provides a boot stipend for firefighters to buy boots, but since size and preference are so diverse, it […]

]]> 278e3f49fc8ba99ab3ba462ea3f902e7 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=186 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:19:51 -0700 We never really know what to expect when we roll up to a fire, but over the years I’ve learned that reality will almost always be less exciting than my imagination. I’ve learned that taking the time to create a […]

]]> 9e906f1aba67de2bc6d1a2bbb4cfcace Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=178 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 04:10:29 -0700 We spent most of our last roll in Wyoming, on the Cliff Creek Fire, just South of Jackson. We were spiked out the whole time, in two different camps. Spiking out means you are not getting meals and supplies at […]

]]> a6b798387fdc1364334cbfd298acad4a Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=175 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:13:27 -0700 This off-season has been intense. I managed to find myself a front desk gig again to avoid layoff. The agreement was that I would be available to help out with prescribed fires, but there weren’t many […]

]]> f53e4d7fe8f963610ffd503b79cc06c3 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=152 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:42:49 -0700 Today is our fourth shift on the Phillips Creek Fire, in Oregon, on the Umatilla national forest and private land. Things are going well on our division, using a combination of dozer line and hand line to bring […]

]]> 5aed18838bd57ce315cba3496fe5d121 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=149 Sat, 04 Jul 2015 20:21:48 -0700 I’m currently on a flight from Fairbanks to Seattle. Next stop is San Fransisco, where I parked my Forest Service Jeep. My plan is to drive as far as Bakersfield, CA tonight and then get home the next day. It […]

]]> f80896bfe8520ef2b9a8680a9560c764 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=145 Sat, 04 Jul 2015 19:59:24 -0700 This morning I showed up for briefing at 0600 and, as expected, my name was on the demob list. My scheduled time for demob was 0800, but I figured I’d get a headstart with some possible vehicle issues so I stopped […]

]]> e0b760aeec24a61cff6860e8aad3676f Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=135 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:51:38 -0700 Today was my official first day on the Saddle Fire. It may also turn out to be my last day on the fire. I got out to the line today, was assigned a dozer and operator, and got geared up to go scout the line for […]

]]> 9e4b4cea1f5b40781deeaf8f505a1083 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=132 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:20:23 -0700 I’m on my first real fire of the 2015 fire season. There were a few small local fires early in the Spring, but they were only type four and type five single-shift low-intensity fires. The crew did a few prescribed […]

]]> dd50b39d24b1b107754caebcd8ac3324 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=123 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:37:04 -0700 f813abff468508315b031211fa96bdc1 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=91 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:45:58 -0700 This was supposed to be my last pay period until March, 2015 or so.  I typically get laid off for four or five months in the winter because I’m a firefighter, pretty low level, and there are not many fires this […]

]]> db7af6689db9cf12d26b27c69a6b2061 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=73 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:48:13 -0700 4cc292ba5f69b9f67d5ea7be3c08e7f5 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=55 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:43:52 -0700 Well, the Deception Fire turned out to be a bit of a turd, but the crew did good work anyway.  There was a lot of sitting around, waiting for the conditions to be right for burning.  The fire was down in a valley […]

]]> bdee6845abb5e3d00c13db366b8eac83 Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=52 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 04:43:55 -0700 Today was day eight for us on the Deception Fire. It’s mostly been a waiting game on this one. The fire was down low in steep terrain and had made at least one good run out of the hole a few days before we […]

]]> 1bcf43b68dc3b0ef8e8a28e7d730885e Dirty wrote a new post http://dirtyhotshot.com/?p=48 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:29:23 -0700 On the South Fork Complex. It’s been a fairly stout roll for us. Lots of direct line and hiking. Today my buggy broke a leaf spring so my squad will be living out of two rental trucks for a while. Such is life but […]

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