Kidd Fire Retreat 2019

A Price Valley Rappel Crew crewmember who returned to the rappel site discovered that trees torching near the site had cast a large amount of embers onto their rappel gear, and that some of the cardboard boxes holding their food, water and overnight equipment were already burning. It quickly became apparent that they were not going to be able to salvage the gear and were only putting themselves at risk by staying up there. The IC called them and told them to “ditch the gear” and said they were going to pull out.

LCES, Helicopters, Equipment, Initial Attack, Aviation, RLS, Close Call