SYCUAN GOLDEN EAGLES HOTSHOTS
NATIVE AMERICAN FIREFIGHTERS:
- Kumeyaay-Digueño Indian Nation.
CONTACT INFORMATION for the BIA-Sycuan Golden Eagles Hotshots.
BASE CAMP: Sycuan Indian Reservation, San Diego County
CREW ESTABLISHED: June 15, 2000, Crew History
SUPERINTENDENT: JuanMendez
Golden Eagles Hotshots take a crew photo in Bakersfield, CA, June 25, 2007, and board a NIFC charter jet en route to the Linville Complex Incident.
ELITE WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS:
The Golden Eagles Hotshots received its full Region 5 R5 Type 1 Certified Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC) status in October 11, 2005.
The Sycuan crews are financially sponsored and supported by the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Tribal Government, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a branch of the federal government.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOTSHOTS:
The Sycuan Golden Eagles Hotshots IHC is the only federal BIA-tribal inter-agency hotshot crew in the state of California.
The elite Sycuan hotshot wildland crews consist of a diverse group of many Native American nations including the Kumeyaay, Paiute, Pima, Karuk, Lakota, Zapoteca, Hatuey, Tule River, Chumash and Cahuilla Native American Indian tribes of North America.
NON-NATIVE HOTSHOTS:
The Sycuan Fire Department hotshots team members also include a mix of non-native firefighters from the Latino, Filipino, African American and Anglo communities.
GOLDEN EAGLES FLYCREWS:
In June of 2003 the Golden Eagles Hotshots established the GOLDEN EAGLES FLYCREW in partnership with the San Diego City Fire and Rescue Department.
The Sycuan firefighting aviation wing is an ICS Type I Flycrew stationed at Montgomery Air Field in San Diego.
The Sycuan ground and flycrew personnel receive highly-specialized training, including flight crew, EMT (emergency medical technician), sawyers, squad bosses, radio operators, heli-base managers, heli repellers, safety officers, fly-by-wires, heli-tack (ground support unit air operations). Further, all Sycuan hotshot personal are qualified type-3 apparatus operators.
Sycuan hotshots heli-tack ground crew brings in San Diego City Copter One for a landing on a Sycuan mountain top on the Sycuan reservation during a training exercise.
Sycuan Fire Department GOLDEN EAGLES FLYCREW 1 (in yellow) takes a picture with a Rogers Helicopters CWN contract crew during the historic San Diego wildfires in October 2007.
The Sycuan Hotshots have a variety of state-of-the-art firefighting apparatus.
WILDLAND FIRE CAREER TRAINING, JOB PLACEMENT with the Sycuan Fire Department annual Sycuan-BIA Wildland Firefighting Academy, San Diego, California.
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