We recently received an update from PA-PAS #5:
They spent Sunday night (8/5/2018) in Missoula, MT and headed for the Idaho panhandle yesterday (8/6/2018) morning.They are currently checked-in to the Copper Mountain Fire. This fire is roughly 150 acres along the Canadian border in the Kootenai National Forest. The average size of a large fire in this area is 10 acres. A Canadian hotshot crew is working their side of the border where the fire has spotted over, while the Lewis and Clark Hotshots are working the US side. Our crew and DES #2 will be joining the hotshots due to the weather forecast - indicating unusually high temperatures for the next 3 days, followed by high winds.
There is very poor communication in the area, along with travel through a slew of roads through rough country. The crew is looking at a lot of saw work as well. The crew boss seems very optimistic about this assignment.
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