Sadly, many of these contracting outfits just barely pass muster to qualify for the gig. Sorry to her of her loss. The news, in the region, that I heard this morning was that she was from outside the US. We get a lot of Canadian firefighters in these parts so I wonder if that's where she's from. They send a lot of scoops in this area. Our US "fleet" is old and not being upgraded fast enough because of funding for USDAFS activities, they can't even pay the firefighters a decent wage. And then contractors eat up a lot of funding because they can charge the government exorbitant fees because of their novelty.
It's the kind of outfit that the candidate, Sheehy, was running. That gang doesn't have a good rep in the fire fighting environment in these parts. A remnant of the concept of the wild west. hee haw.
ETA: The main hubs for the region when it comes to wildland fire fighting are Boise, ID and Missoula, MT.
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