Kevin Dearden

Plumas National Forest

Mt. Hough Ranger District

Quincy, CA 95971

39696 CA-70

Superintendent Mike Sherman: (530) 394-7373

Squad Lead Jose Diaz: (626) 232-2246

• Participated in complex wildland fire suppression assignments using direct and indirect tactics.
• Safely mitigated hazard trees along containment lines and roads.
• Maintained oil and fuel inventory for the crew.
• Worked around aircraft and heavy equipment during fireline construction and mop up.
• Observe and record weather, topography, fuels, and fire behavior data.
• Hiked with line gear and physically trained rigorously to maintain strong physical condition to complete physically demanding tasks on the fire line.
• Scraped, cleared brush, and dug trenches to create fireline using pulaskis, chainsaws, shovels, and various hand tools.
• Reliably completed tasks and responsibilities given by crewmembers throughout the 14 day assignments and back at the forest service fire station.
• Laid and connected hoses, utilized nozzles and directed water streams as part of fire suppression activities at active wildfire scenes.
• Knowledgeable in fire terminology and able to effectively communicate with fellow crew members and adjoining forces.
• Received directions and efficiently communicated instructions to other crew members on active fire incidents.
• Professionally communicated using the BK Radio over crew and fire channels.
• Skilled at building, sharpening, and maintaining hand tools such as Pulaskis, Chingaderas, Rhinos, Mcleods, and Shovels.
• Worked as a swamper on a saw team for multiple 14 day assignments moving brush and hiking with the Stihl MS 461 chainsaw.
• Proficient in chainsaw cleaning, maintenance, refueling, troubleshooting, and safety measures.
• Cut and felled snags and hazard trees safely with a saw, practicing OHLEC and proper cutting techniques.
• Utilized and performed navigation skills with maps, compasses, and GPS devices.
• Skilled in safely burning and back firing using drip torches, dual launchers, very pistols, bombs, and fusees.
• Held fire line in coordination with firing efforts, watching and reporting any slop-over or spot fires that may have spread from the burning operation.
• Patrolled and mopped-up burnt areas after fires to locate heat and eliminate hot spots that could flare or rekindle.
• Extinguished burning material using hand tools and water via nozzle and backpack pump.

Whittier, CA 90601

3600 Workman Mill Road

487 Hours of total work experience.

Lead Instructor Guillermo Macias: (562) 639-6428

• Remain professional and arrive at 0600 every day ready to work.
• Arrive to academy in uniform and presentable for the days requirements.
• Intensely PT for at least two hours every day doing calisthenics, running, and hiking.
• As a squad leader, account for your own time and the time of your squad members.
• Use and program a radio, and effectively paint a picture of the incident to other squad members or cadre.
• Take weather with a belt weather kit, and read weather over the radio using the IRPG.
• Troubleshoot and use portable pumps in the field to draft and pump water.
• Learn about fire weather, topography, and fuels that affects fire behavior.
• Capable to work with a variety of individuals in high stress situations and maintain an alacrity for wildland firefighting.