PS Marin County is a contract county, NOT CDF. Meaning it takes money from CDF to protect what would be SRA lands (formerly half the budget but no more). At that time frame you mentioned, we were VERY popular with CDF because our training exceeded theirs (but we used their fires to apply our training since Marin rarely burns), we could be more aggressive in attack (kicked ass) and we had the only all 4WD Type III engine strike team in the entire state. Other agencies noted that and modified their fleets; now it's fairly common.
Rick
On 4/16/2016 3:20 PM, Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters] wrote:
Interesting.... and most of the members here don't know that by a bizarre bit of fate and coincidence, my mom and I noticed a strike team of Marin County CDF engines staying at the Gold Country Inn in Angels Camp during the days following the advent of the Old Gulch Fire in August, 1992... of which you were a member and a captain of an engine company stationed from over in that part of Marin County.BTW, here is an image of that fire last night: http://eclecticarcania.blogspot.com/2016/04/picture-of-day-fire-of-ill-omen.html
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