A wildland firefighter working night shift walks along a containment line dug by a bulldozer at the Lookout Fire in Oregon.
Members of a hotshot crew, an elite firefighting crew, conduct a backburn at the Double Creek fire. In a backburn, wildland firefighters intentionally burn vegetation ahead of the main body of a wildfire to create a buffer zone of burnt fuel that ca
A wildland firefighter uses a drip torch to burn off brush during a back burn operation.
A member of a hotshot crew flings burning drip torch fluid to ignite grass and brush during a back burn operation.
Fire ignites the crown of a tree, causing it to torch up during night shift at the Shoe Fly fire near Mitchell, Oregon.
A handcrew digs containment line during night shift at the Shoe Fly fire near Mitchell, Oregon.
Wildland firefighters attend briefing at the Bly fire camp in southern Oregon before starting their shift suppressing the Bootleg fire.
A helicopter transports a load of water to be dropped on the Bootleg fire.
Wildland firefighters mop up hot spots along the perimeter of the Bootleg fire. Mopping up in firefighting is the process of cooling down burnt material left behind by a fire. To ensure the fire is completely out in an area and nothing rekindles, fi
A wildland firefighter uses a pulaski to dig up smoldering material buried in the ground at the Boneyard Fire in Oregon.
Wildland firefighters watch as a juniper tree torches up inside a control line at the Courtrock fire near Monument, Oregon.
Wildland firefighters rush to extinguish a spot fire at the Courtrock fire near Monument, Oregon.
Wildland firefighter Gamari Griffin poses for a photo during mop up operations at the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon.
The Hendricks-Davis family watches as a fire burns across the Siuslaw river behind their farm. The fire burning behind the Hendricks-Davis family farm was lit intentionally by firefighters for a controlled burn of an area that was at risk of catchin
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