Beaver Fire

That dozer operator's mental toughness saved their lives, as well as the leadership

I cant stop watching these

That dozer really saved their lives. The last few passes the dozer made, dug the middle lower and made it possible to get cooler air and allow air flow to pass over them, instead of into them.

I was a line medic on this fire to the Division North of this incident @ SPIKE/DP46. This was the scariest radio traffic I have ever heard, and being mobilized to the division break for a pre stage in case of major injuries puckered me like no other. The video didn't cover the fact that thunderstorms had moved through earlier in the day, and in fact were influential in this fire. The fire had similar behavior in the days previous around the same time. I'll tell you what witnessing a sustained downhill crown run is the most impressive behavior I have seen in my years. By gods grace and through good training all are safe, and god bless. This area was a mix of industry land and NF. The industry HEQ operators had a burnover also the first or second day of this fire. It was a nightly show for the first few days of this fire as the behavior made consistent runs during the days previous.

"Sorry I got you into this kid." "Aw hell this is nothing.....wooo...damn.'..he says while backing up. Kudos to Tommy for the video because I've never seen video from an area with a crown fire of this magnitude totally surrounding it. The area seemed big enough to me until it was surrounded. Admire the balls on these folks and have nothing but mad respect for all who do this extremely important and dangerous job...Congress should apprrove higher wages and more benefits...but the assholes probably won't until it directly affects them....if then!

These are some real good guys. All they were worried about was each other. Great job guys!

As a career firefighter including wildland I see this as not only essential for firefighters, but priceless to show non-firefighters what it's like when caught by fire and having to deploy fire shelters. These men are incredibly good at relating what happened and how they handled it.

The only reason they're alive is because they could stay calm in a literal life and death situation. Amazing heroism

Hats off to those guys. They're the definition of 'real men'.

Those flame lengths are so insane! My anxiety was through the roof watching this! So much respect to those out there fighting these beasts!

"oh hell this is nothin!" Hats off to you guys thank God you survived

I just went through fire shelter training 2 days ago This is a great video to reinforce that training.

These men are incredibly brave, heroes. So happy it was a good outcome. I couldn’t imagine the terror being in that situation. Firefighters and true heroes. ❤️🙏

These men are real heroes, the celebrities you see Hollywood are not.

Fantastic documentary. I have a new understanding of the seriousness of this business.

Very good telling from the guys how to behave when you are inside the furnace, don´t panic at any time. Guess that is quite hard.

Glad these guys made it out alive. Big massive Thank you to the fire fighters and teams who risk their lives to protect us. Stay safe, keep training, be smart, believe in yourselves and come home. I am not a firefighter but because of you have applied to join a SAR team as a volunteer, as my way of paying it forward. Thankyou

Tommy’s shelter wasn’t going to take much more… Glad you are all here with us.

Tom was a good fireman, had fun wrking with him on the El Dorado- He is a risk taker but we always made it out safely- I got my USFS faller certification from Tom, we ran a crew for three years together and It would be fun to see him again, he's one heck of a good drummer too! EDNF E522- 523- knb 662

Thank you. I vote this video becomes the required fire shelter training video. Many things to learn and extremely well articulated by Tom and the other gentlemen.