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nearly two months and thousands of

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firefighters later the dixie fire is

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closer to one million acres burn than

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it ever has been . The United States

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Army now stepping in there . All active

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military , they all volunteered for

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this assignment , Evans quo incident

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commander for the east zone of the

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dixie Fire says over 200 military

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soldiers and personnel have now joined

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the battle . We've got quite a bit of

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fire activity going on , especially

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with going off in that direction off to

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the north and impacting a lot of values

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at risk in this area , values at risk .

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Short version is it's communities ,

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people's towns lives . So as I said ,

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your arrival is timely . Its title 10

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title 32 Air Force Army .

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We have everybody's in and we're trying

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to put these fires out ready . Break

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nessie decided bring in military

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support because we were all out of

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resources . Mhm .

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Mhm , mm hmm . It was my

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first time working with soldiers had on

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fires . Super fun to work with

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tons of energy , pretty motivated group

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of guys and gals . Mhm .

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It's important to the community to show

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that the natural resource agencies ,

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the U . S . Forest Service are doing

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everything they can to protect the

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values at risk . Mhm .

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Yeah , I would describe my team as

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being very motivated , ready to get to

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work around it . Who

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tons of challenges coming from day one

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firefighters that I don't know how to

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hold the tool . Just seeing where

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they've gotten to with the gritting and

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keeping the spacing and the mopping up .

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They've come a long way from day one

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they have the talk , they have the look

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of , of a wildland firefighter and they

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have the pride of , I'd say my overall

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experience was fun , exciting to get

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and and do some work and getting to

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know the firefighters and their

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backgrounds as well as them , getting

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to know our crew . I'm just proud of

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your effort , proud of House for Spirit

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Head . You guys have done it right .

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And this is not my first Rodeo with

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title 10 hand crews . He came down here

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ready to go , brought all the equipment

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you were required to bring and you

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really set it up fast and got out there

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in the field . I just think across the

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country , there's a lot more

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appreciation for soldiers who sacrifice

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their time and their energy and their

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safety to be out here .