Crown King

So far, we are having a lot of fun here in Crown King! We are being trained as firefighters! For the first couple of days, we took a general recruit class so that we knew what to expect and also some training on basic information. Then, we started to work in the field, which involved us cutting down lots and lots of brush from properties that requested the fire department's help. The reason we are cutting the brush down is because in the past, firefighters thought that all fires were bad and that they needed to stop all of them. The brush that needed to be cleaned out by the natural fires were not being cleaned anymore, so the forests were overgrown and had a high risk of fire.
The next training we had was medical training so we can be on call in an emergency. Then, we got trained to use chain saws, which is pretty cool!
Today, we were out in the field working and it was so cold that it was snowing!
We went to the Grand Canyon this past weekend over our four day spring break, which was a lot of fun. The second day we were there, it snowed all day and when we went to look at the canyon, there was fog and it looked like the world ended at the trees! We spent two days at the Grand Canyon and then went to Sedona, where we camped for our third night. Then we went to Jerome, where we went hiking in the Red Rocks.
We got our project choices for next round, which is pretty neat. A lot of them are in Texas and involve trail building, one is in Arkansas, one in New Mexico working at a native american reservation and a couple in Colorado, trail building. We got to pick our top choices but we will know where we are going when we get back to Denver next month.