A new team was brought in to help fight the Bighorn Fire in the Catalina Mountains.
FIGHT FOR CREWS NOT ONLY HAVETHEY HAD TO DEAL WITH STRONG,ERRATIC WINDS, BUT ALSO THEDIFFICULTY OF (WHERE THIS FIREIS.
YESTERDAY THE TYPE THREETEAM THAT STARTED OFF FIGHTINGTHIS FIRE WAS SWITCHED OUT FORA TYPE ONE INCIDENT MANAGEMENTTEAM.
THIS IS SIGNIFICANTBECAUSE THIS TYPE ONE TEAMBRINGS A WHOLE LOT (MORERESOURCES WITH IT ALONG WITHA TOUGHER MANAGEMENT TEAMTRAINED TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULTFIRES, LIKE THIS ONE.
WE SPOKETO A MEMBER OF THIS TEAM WHOTOLD US BRINGING IN THIS NEWTEAM HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITHTHE (KIND OF FIRE CREWS AREFIGHTING.
WE HAVE THE STEEP,RUGGED TERRAIN, WE HAVE THECOMMUNITIES, IT IS EXPANDINGOVER THE RIDE THERE TOWARDPIMA HEADING FURTHER EAST SOWE FELT BECAUSE OF THECOMPLEXITY AND BECAUSE IT'SJUST OVER 25- HUNDRED ACRES,THE BEST THING TO DO WAS BRINGIN A TYPE 1 TEAM PEARSON ADDEDMOST OF THE FIGHT AGAINST THISFIRE IS BEING DONE WITH WATERBUCKETS AND RETARDANT ANDTHAT'S BECAUSE IT'S TOODANGEROUS TO HAVE HOTSHOTCREWS IN THE THICK OF IT.RIGHT NOW THEIR MAIN PRIORITYIS HOLDING THE LINES OF THEFIRE.
SHE ADDED THE GOAL FOR(TODAY IS CONTINUING TO HOLDTHOSE LINES AND USE AIROPERATIONS AS MUCH ASPOSSIBLE.
AS OF YESTERDAY THEFIRE MORE THAN 25-HUNDREDACRES AND WAS 10 PERCENTCONTAINED.
REPORTING LIVE INORO VALLEY, VERONICA ACOSTA,KGUN NINE ON YOUR SIDE.
Bighorn fire still 33% contained as it approaches third week; spreads to more than 74,000 acres
