Seen them out on the line before. Hard working crew. Just gotta say the guy on the thumbnail looks like Paul Jr from OCC. 😂. Be safe this season folks.
Now if you could just pay your folks time and 1/2 overtime......from their actual hourly wage not the garbage 1.5 from minimum wage crap. Ps, Grey Back folks.... everyone else gets paid travel, 1/4 time hazard, and 1 1/2 overtime. Don't risk your life and get ripped off. YOU are worth more!
For everyone here saying they want to fight fire. If you really want to, go walk through the deep woods for hours on end with 55 pounds in your back, a shovel, and thick pants, heavy boots, and a long sleeve, during your walk, and it needs to be a decently fast walk, start digging foot deep holes and filling them back in. This will give you the tiniest taste of what we do
You will go from one brotherhood to another, please trust me when I say it will pay dividends in the long run if you do. Especially when you get the army blues
they show all the work with actual flame when 90% of the time its mop up especially on a contract crew like grayback still a good job just this seems like false advertisement
I'm a combat veteran. I want to give this a shot. I have not found anything that I can do that is a respectable job. My current job is minimum wage and if I'm not picking up trash its because I have a shovel in my hand. That's hard for me to stomach because I have a purple heart and a combat action badge. I'd rather use a shovel to put out fires and do something that is useful to society
8 months later. Tomorrow I show up to the diamond fire facility and im taking the wildland firefighter course. I forgot I watched this video 8mo ago. I never thought I could do this. Its a dream that has faded in and out my whole life. This is very motivating and reassuring that im making the rite choice in life.
@@christopherhernandez3909 www.dbfightfire.com/# right now i'm training to pass the pack test. 3 mile hike with 45 lbs in 45 mins. I'm set to go to the entry level training on July 22nd. It would be cool to see you there
hey Im looking to join and have been doing a little research, they hire people without experience right ? also if anyone wants to email me and chat a little more I would love to hear your journey in joining these fire crews. I'm just trying to get a better understanding of everything involved including the first steps into applying getting accepted and moving forward into the field!
Cute. But a few things. 1. You’re too clean to be really getting after it. 2. Nice job superimposing the flames onto the mop up. 3. Quit pretending you love it so much, your operational tempo needs some more juice if that’s the case. 4. Quit doing drugs in camp. 5. Pay your damn people.
Worked for the State when the entry level pay was $6.50/hr and what equated to an Engine Boss back then was making $9.00/hr with spotty seasons all the while confined to my own state (granted the year I left was 1999). Upon leaving for a contractor, starting season was 2000, not only were my State qualifications exceeding that of the Federal requirements for what the state had me at (I left as a backup Engine Boss), but it more than doubled my pay and I got to travel the country. That year I started in March in the South West, hit up the big fire bust in the Northern Rockies (Idaho/Montana in June, July, August) and ended in November over in the Daniel Boone N.F. where I got to have Thanksgiving dinner in fire camp. The next season (2001) I retained both my Engine Boss and Crew Boss status, but also got to run my own dispatch. Unfortunately for us though, we were dispatched to the 30 mile the day after the incident and most of my crew were local from that area (in other words, they knew the 4 that had passed). However that too was a very busy season and ended mid Fall. 2002, we were Crew 08 on the Florence Fire in Oregon, which would be later named The Biscuit Fire and at that time was deemed the largest fire in Oregon's history at approximately 495,000 acres. I even had the opportunity to check off almost half of my Firing Boss book thanks to various agencies. We (we as in not only the contractor I was working for, but other contractors such as Greyback) also came through with the then "new" Type 2 IA contract at which we had to exceed State and Federal qualifications. How you can see that as "Lazy" is nothing short of bias. As someone who had started fighting structure fires at 15 on a small rural fire department in the mid 90's, then onto a State agency right out of High School only to decide that I wanted to travel the country and make money doing it, I see the old stereotype coming out in your pathetic comment. It is one that these guys spent literally decades in shedding and if you knew anything about the history of contracting, you wouldn't have said what you said as there have been a ton of "fly by night" companies that Government Agencies cast a unilateral umbrella over all of them for no reason. Honestly, how would you feel if for 20 years, everything you did at work was being held to a different standard than everyone else'? Or how about getting blamed for another Dispatches screw up? That would be awesome to have to deal with in every aspect of your career wouldn't it? No, it sucked and these companies that are left literally fought through it to get where they are at today. The people that they have long term is a direct reflection of those values. Those values are in turn being passed onto the new generation and that is a good thing. As someone who has worked for both a Government and Private agency I can tell you, the Government Agency was the more "lazy" of the two. And try to remember at the end of the day, you all wear Yellow and Green, so stow your bias, even if you have to shut your lip. You can sign me, An old fire dog/cancer survivor
Thank you,Mike wheelock,Ed Float & the DAY.🎉❤
Worked with these guys and gals while falling trees on the Ferguson fire in Yosemite last season. Great team!
ua-cam.com/video/i9aNSlDQ5v4/v-deo.html #SLM #SawyerLivesMatter
#ChainsawSafety #TreesNotCoEds
#PeopleWhoWorkWithChainsawsArePeopleToo #DownWithWildFires
"you get to work with clean pure air" 😂😂 excuse me??
The gentleman meant “outdoors.” You get to work outdoors. 🤙🤙🤙
I hope you realize that they're not always directly in front of the flame front, sometimes they're far ahead of the front removing fuel.
@@howtogetdisowned7478 please explain more about the job I did for years, go ahead.
@@CannedTunas Hmmm, then you should know that the air is much better than city air.
That comment made me go 😳🧐🤷🏼♂️
This just gives me peace just watching this😌
Seen them out on the line before. Hard working crew. Just gotta say the guy on the thumbnail looks like Paul Jr from OCC. 😂. Be safe this season folks.
This crew was in Meeker, CO last summer great crew.
Got the chance to meet these men on the shellrock fire in MT. Some of the most impressive and respectable people I have met.
Just applied pick me up for the 2021 fire season you won’t be disappointed 🔥🤘🏽
Did you get picked up?
@@antoniofleek-quiros6473 no I didn’t I’m currently on a crew out of California trying to make my way up to Oregon tho
@@Sawdawg97 how much you make during busy season bra
Excited for my first fire season! 👩🏾🚒🔥
Dam dude me too I'm with the johnday or unit
James Robert hope to see you out there brother! I’m here with the Missoula Graybackers.
Not with greyback,but excited as hell for fire season. Maybe I'll spot you at a spot or base camp in chow line!!
Donovan Linear when do you start? Is it too late to join?
Excited this season too 👍 I'll be with the forest service in Umatilla 🌲
Now if you could just pay your folks time and 1/2 overtime......from their actual hourly wage not the garbage 1.5 from minimum wage crap.
Ps, Grey Back folks.... everyone else gets paid travel, 1/4 time hazard, and 1 1/2 overtime. Don't risk your life and get ripped off. YOU are worth more!
Applied a week ago, I’m so excited for just the opportunity.
Do you need any experience? Iim trying and looking into this. How did you start and how long was the process?! GoodLuck btw👍🏻
@@witch-kingan9mar158 same
This is the biggest piece of baggery I have ever seen
🤣
"You get to work in clean pure air." lol I dunno about that when you have a wind shift and are breathing in smoke during a burn op for several hours.
Shut up
If you can keep your crew in line on fires from trying to sleep with every women in camp
You work with some degens friend we have females on our crews and nobodies trying to fuck them
For everyone here saying they want to fight fire. If you really want to, go walk through the deep woods for hours on end with 55 pounds in your back, a shovel, and thick pants, heavy boots, and a long sleeve, during your walk, and it needs to be a decently fast walk, start digging foot deep holes and filling them back in. This will give you the tiniest taste of what we do
I was a Smoke Jumper for USFS. Now that is an Ass kicking. Be safe. One foot in the black ;)
Well that smoke is blowing out your ass you liar!
@@davidpierce8942 why are they a lier?
After my contract in the army ends I’m probably gonna do this
Hell yeah same here, when is your time done?
@@jordans1917 I think I have around 2 years and 6 months
@@jordans1917 u in the army too if so what Mos
Lots a vets in my crew specifically grunts
You will go from one brotherhood to another, please trust me when I say it will pay dividends in the long run if you do. Especially when you get the army blues
Bagger crew!..
Bagger gang
Worked with this crew on the North Pelican fire in Klamath Falls OR good crew
Great job happily employed for almost 2 years :) great vid guys
I am applying Monday for my local area. What are some tips to get accepted?? I really want to do this....
they show all the work with actual flame when 90% of the time its mop up especially on a contract crew like grayback still a good job just this seems like false advertisement
Bill Jones yeah especially when your working on a type 3 or 2 team ( what everyone does when they start), whole shit ton of ash
90% of wildland firefighting is mop, yeah you do more as a hotshot etc
Yup
Hotshots are mopping up too lol.
Have you seen military recruitment commercials? Way worse lmao
What is the pay?
Clean pure air?
It's not as bad as you would think a lot of the time.
Yea they mainly mop
I'm a combat veteran. I want to give this a shot. I have not found anything that I can do that is a respectable job. My current job is minimum wage and if I'm not picking up trash its because I have a shovel in my hand. That's hard for me to stomach because I have a purple heart and a combat action badge. I'd rather use a shovel to put out fires and do something that is useful to society
8 months later. Tomorrow I show up to the diamond fire facility and im taking the wildland firefighter course.
I forgot I watched this video 8mo ago. I never thought I could do this. Its a dream that has faded in and out my whole life. This is very motivating and reassuring that im making the rite choice in life.
@@PrimitiveOverland What base are you training at? I’m a veteran as well and I just applied for the base in Merlin, Oregon.
@@PrimitiveOverland congrats man I’m glad you made it. I’m no veteran but I hate not having a respectable job too
Year 2 this year 🔥🔥.
Might see you out there my first year how was it for you?
Man I’m hoping to get involved in this kinda work this year I love the outdoors plus I’m getting tired of factory work
@@christopherhernandez3909
www.dbfightfire.com/#
right now i'm training to pass the pack test. 3 mile hike with 45 lbs in 45 mins. I'm set to go to the entry level training on July 22nd. It would be cool to see you there
Orientation june 7th. Can't wait!
How'd everything turn out?
hey Im looking to join and have been doing a little research, they hire people without experience right ? also if anyone wants to email me and chat a little more I would love to hear your journey in joining these fire crews. I'm just trying to get a better understanding of everything involved including the first steps into applying getting accepted and moving forward into the field!
Go join a shot crew
If you work for Grayback don’t forget to bring your meth. They are a bunch of tweakers.
Nice
I wanna volunteer. More so for free education. IKR crazy got my bills set rent paid. Do you except volunteer’s ?
You wanna volunteer for 14 days, 16 hrs a day, with 2 rest days between?
With no experience what is my first step towards doing this?
Start working out and make an account on usajobs. Jobs are still going up
@@nightfighter7452 this is a contractor correct USA jobs is for the USFS which is govt.
Is it too late to apply for you guys. I’m in eastern Washington. Spokane
Nice im from omak, gonna be entiat hot shot
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Can I become wild land firefighter while not being American?
Get your green card then start applying.
Wild land firefighters aren’t only in America, just research the different countries with the job opening
I wish I could join but I'm in upstate NY
You still can lol
Hope I get this job.😭
Cute. But a few things. 1. You’re too clean to be really getting after it. 2. Nice job superimposing the flames onto the mop up. 3. Quit pretending you love it so much, your operational tempo needs some more juice if that’s the case. 4. Quit doing drugs in camp. 5. Pay your damn people.
You must not be a firefighter.
@@ThinBlueLineGuardian hotshot, you?
@@runningthor1999 Yes, with Pat RIck Corp
@@runningthor1999 I can agree on one thing on what you said, and that is the pay.
@@ThinBlueLineGuardian that’s because you’re still on the drugs.
I do
Does this company have an age cut off? I’m 42.
@cowboy is the pack test the only medical / physical test to join?
Nice advertisement!
Why dont people work for the feds? You will make more money.
David Marshall Jr Lazy
I use to work doing this for the feds sorry the Money not that much different. Had to give it up due to a bad car wreck I miss it so very much.
Worked for the State when the entry level pay was $6.50/hr and what equated to an Engine Boss back then was making $9.00/hr with spotty seasons all the while confined to my own state (granted the year I left was 1999). Upon leaving for a contractor, starting season was 2000, not only were my State qualifications exceeding that of the Federal requirements for what the state had me at (I left as a backup Engine Boss), but it more than doubled my pay and I got to travel the country. That year I started in March in the South West, hit up the big fire bust in the Northern Rockies (Idaho/Montana in June, July, August) and ended in November over in the Daniel Boone N.F. where I got to have Thanksgiving dinner in fire camp.
The next season (2001) I retained both my Engine Boss and Crew Boss status, but also got to run my own dispatch. Unfortunately for us though, we were dispatched to the 30 mile the day after the incident and most of my crew were local from that area (in other words, they knew the 4 that had passed). However that too was a very busy season and ended mid Fall.
2002, we were Crew 08 on the Florence Fire in Oregon, which would be later named The Biscuit Fire and at that time was deemed the largest fire in Oregon's history at approximately 495,000 acres. I even had the opportunity to check off almost half of my Firing Boss book thanks to various agencies. We (we as in not only the contractor I was working for, but other contractors such as Greyback) also came through with the then "new" Type 2 IA contract at which we had to exceed State and Federal qualifications.
How you can see that as "Lazy" is nothing short of bias. As someone who had started fighting structure fires at 15 on a small rural fire department in the mid 90's, then onto a State agency right out of High School only to decide that I wanted to travel the country and make money doing it, I see the old stereotype coming out in your pathetic comment. It is one that these guys spent literally decades in shedding and if you knew anything about the history of contracting, you wouldn't have said what you said as there have been a ton of "fly by night" companies that Government Agencies cast a unilateral umbrella over all of them for no reason.
Honestly, how would you feel if for 20 years, everything you did at work was being held to a different standard than everyone else'? Or how about getting blamed for another Dispatches screw up? That would be awesome to have to deal with in every aspect of your career wouldn't it? No, it sucked and these companies that are left literally fought through it to get where they are at today.
The people that they have long term is a direct reflection of those values. Those values are in turn being passed onto the new generation and that is a good thing.
As someone who has worked for both a Government and Private agency I can tell you, the Government Agency was the more "lazy" of the two. And try to remember at the end of the day, you all wear Yellow and Green, so stow your bias, even if you have to shut your lip.
You can sign me,
An old fire dog/cancer survivor
@@olsonbryce777 this guy's an idiot
@@auminer3959 well said. I worked for a contract crew and we were damn serious about our job.
Tip my hat to a fellow cancer survivor.
"No Huevos, No Nino's..
mop shot gang
I am sure thesw people work hard. But this video is really cringy.
Nice