Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression hotshot crew members from northern California, Brian Herman, left, and Matt Vessel, look over their packs at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa before heading off to help fight the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression hotshot crew members from northern California gather at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa to head to help fight the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression hotshot crew members from northern California, Brian Herman, left, and Matt Vessel, look over their packs at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa before heading off to help fight the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression hotshot crew member Ryan DuVall sharpens a Pulaski tool while staging at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa to head to help fight the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression hotshot crew members from northern California, Brian Herman, left, and Matt Vessel, look over their packs at the Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa before heading off to help fight the Wallow fire in eastern Arizona, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. [Tim Hacker, Tribune]
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Cimbo posted at 12:36 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
It's extremely commendable that the Phoenix Area fire Depts are sending firefighters up there to assist. I've read several articles about this in the last week or so but I have a problem with one thing.... After watching our troops deploy for at least 15 months at a clip do we really need to hear how hard it is for them to go up there for 14 to 21 days? Another article I read a Dept was sending up guys for a week. Whaah! The overtime these guys are going to be making to get out of the heat and into the cool pines will more then make up for their sacrifice. I work in an industry where we assist hard hit areas during disasters and their is always a long line of volunteers to get out of the heat... Thank you guys for all your hard work- truly! But the guys speaking for you should tone down the "sacrifice" rhetoric.