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BYRON ALCANTARA

Captain / Golden Eagles IHC

Professional firefighter, Sycuan-BIA Golden Eagles Hotshots Squad Boss Byron Alcantara, keeps watch over his crew as they clear a temporary landing zone for the city's firefighting helicopter (below) during a press conference with San Diego City Copter 1 at Lake Hodges, San Diego County, June 18, 2007.

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Byron "B Ron" Alcantara
Captain / Golden Eagles IHC

Sycuan Fire Captain Byron Alcantara, Golden Eagles IHC 63B, gives a young school boy (his nephew) the special Sycuan VIP treatment by sticking an honorary fireman's badge on his chest, putting a red captain's helmet on his head, and holding him up for a professional picture. Captain Alcantara organized the Sycuan fire safety event for the Wolf Canyon Elementary School.

HOTSHOTS IN THE REAL WORLD — DOWNLOAD HIGH-RESOLUTION POSTER (you will want to zoom in on this one), featuring a bit of firefighters' reality...

Edge of Hell...Calm, Cool, Collected — heat from the wall of fire and flames must have been nearly unbearable when this blazing photograph was taken on the fireline.

Helitack red retardant drop, East Basin Complex.

Real hard asses — dirty fire fighters smoking cigars pictured.

2009 BIA FIRE SEASON CERTIFICATION PICTURES: Golden Eagles Hotshots regularly PT together so meeting the BIA wildland minimum standards during a 10-minute run was no problem for the brotherhood — they ran the running test in a fast pace in this very close formation. DOWNLOAD HIGH RESOLUTION FIREFIGHTING POSTER.

Siskiyou NF Oregon ‚ CALIF Wildland Hotshot Crew pic.

Good times — California Hotshots.

PROFESSIONAL FIREMAN Byron "B Ron" Alcantara interacts with young California elementary school children during a fire-fighting safety day at a local San Diego County grade school.

Golden Eagles Hotshots lookout over heli-torch operations, Big Sur.

Hills on fire.

ZACA II FIRE, Los Padres National Forest PICTURE BLOG, Santa Barbara, CA, 2007 -- Captain Juan Mendez, a qualified dozer boss, pauses for a photo with his Dozer trainees and fellow firefighters, Byron Alcantara and Robert Goodwin.

CLICK to see the 2008 Golden Eagles Hotshots IHC official firefighter portraits.

WILDLAND HOTSHOTS complete long 2008 fire season, Sycuan fire crews pose for their end of fireseason professional crew pictures — Capt. Alcantara is the fireman standing left of the center man, Supt. Juan Mendez.

Captain Alcantara ( 2nd from right) stands with his crew during a 2008 inspection at GE IHC Base Camp, Sycuan Indian reservation, San Diego County.

SYCUAN WILDLAND CREW OFFICERS stood by and paid attention to valuable advice and interesting comments made by their chiefs. Pictured (l-r) Captain Jose "DZAW" Deza (Golden Eagles Fuels Crew), Capt. Byron "B Ron" Alcantara (Golden Eagles IHC), Captain Rick "Mad" Madrigal (Golden Eagles IHC), Superintendent Juan "Huge" Mendez (Golden Eagles IHC), Captain Clark "Rob" Serrato (Golden Eagles Flycrew) — DOWNLOAD FULL RESOLUTION PHOTO.

Sycuan Hotshots Captain Alcantara (far right) stands with his firefighting crew during their 2008 Annual BIA Inter-Agency Hotshot Crew Certification Review on June 10th and received official certification for the 2008 fire season after passing the federal government's stringent administrative, field and medical evaluations.

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