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BIA California IHC firemen send back awesome fire pics and movies from the from fire line that they took with their own cameras for their web site firefighters blogs.

INDIAN FIRE — East West Basin Complex

The 2008 national fire season is proving to be as challenging for wildland fire crews as any other fire season in hotshots history.

After receiving federal certification for the 2008 FIRE SEASON from the Bureau of Indian Affairs last June, it headed out to fight fires across the nation including the NAME fires blogged here.

Text will be added after Supt Mendez and his crew have had some R&R and chronicle their personal experience on the fire line and note the key points about their fire pictures...

NOTE: Juan also sent back some great digital video so that movie footage will be posted here as soon as it gets edited and signed off for immediate release.

Helicopter aerial hanging drip torch...setting backfires from the air to combat the raging mountain wilderness fires — West Basin Complex wildland firefighting photos, helitack air operations.

Professional wildland firefighter Adolfo Osuna looks at the fire photographer for an awesome fire picture with a blazing California hillside in the background.

An airtanker flies clear of after dropping a load of fire retardant...

A large SMOKE PLUME is photographed from a mountaintop.

Sycuan Hotshots leave their crew carriers and hike up the mountain for operations in their attack against the wild fire.

A large column of smoke and flames burn up a hillside to the top of a mountain.

A large US Forrest Service helicopter flies past the Sycuan firefighters.

A burning hillside pulls a backfire into itself.

Sycuan firefighters catch a moment's rest on the fire line at any chance.

Sycuan firemen tend to their fire-fighting gear at the incident.

HOTSHOTS "IN THE REAL WORLD" — DOWNLOAD HIGH-RESOLUTION POSTER (you will want to zoom in on this one), featuring a bit of firefighters' reality from Capt. Alcantara's professional fireman's scrapbook — Spiked Out Nine Consecutive Days (West Basin Complex, 2008).

This is what the crew looked like posing for a crew scrapbook photo at the end of their eight-day tour and the fire is more contained.

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