SETH HUNT

• Master of Natural Resources- Fire Ecology and Management G.P.A: 3.7 Expected Graduation Date: December 15, 2023
• Xi Sigma Pi - (The International Forestry and Natural Resources Honors Society) – Epsilon (University of Idaho Chapter)
• Conducted fuel inventories and analyzed fire behavior and ecological effects while using appropriate methods such as the Brown’s Planar Transect Method and the Photoload Sampling Technique.
• Forecasted potential outcomes of fire management decisions over time and space using models and prediction tools, while considering uncertainty and risk.
• Appropriately used scientific literature, technologies, and expert advice to address complex natural resource issues and applied scientific knowledge to fire management issues.
• Excelled in G.I.S applications in Fire Ecology and Management and created reports ready for management use while using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Field Maps, and Avenza.
• Predicted the response of ecosystems to fire based upon thorough understanding of fire regimes, fire history, and fire effects.
• Applied knowledge of fire ecology to fuels management, restoration ecology, and natural lands management.
• Gained a strong understanding of how to measure and evaluate vegetation attributes and designed and implemented monitoring programs relative to wildlife habitat, livestock forage, fire fuel characteristics, watershed function, and many other wildland values, in grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, and forests.
• Evaluated and strategically applied fire behavior, prescribed fire, and fire effects models using software tools such as Behave plus, FVS, FlamMap, FOFEM, Fuel and Fire Tools, Fire Family Plus, Feat-Firemon Integrated Light, FEISS, and Landfire.

Operated as FFT1/ ICT5 trainee on a Type 5 wildland fire engine.

Operated a Type 5 engine and pump for fire suppression.

Was responsible for the supervision and safety of FFT2 firefighters while acting as FFT1 Trainee .

Participated in prescribed fire treatments utilizing a drip torch to meet resource objectives.

Operated chainsaws within prescription to successfully complete fuel treatment objectives on the landscape.

Grew familiarity with the Washington Department of Natural Resources and the landscapes and fuel types they manage.

• Successfully graduated the Greater Flagstaff Region Fire Academy with cadre from Flagstaff, Highlands, and Summit Fire Departments.
• Received a full array of detailed training in structural, wildland, and wildland urban interface firefighting techniques.
• Provided excellent customer service to the public and members of the community.
• Enjoyed fighting fire aggressively in extreme fire and weather conditions in the wildland urban interface.
• Ran calls and performed BLS medical care and all hazard firefighting duties for the city.

• Operated as a part of a Type 3 Engine module and suppressed wildland and vehicle fires.
• Acted as an EMT and gave medical care in austere and remote environments.
• Interacted with aircraft to transport patients in technical terrain and remote environments.
• Operated with simple and progressive hose lays to suppress wildfires.
• Utilized SCBA's and suppressed vehicle fires.

• Operated on a Helitack module utilizing a Type 3 A-star Helicopter.
• Flew missions at elevations from 4,000 feet to 14,500 ft.
• Served as the EMT for helicopter 525 and was responsible for all of the medical equipment for the ship.
• Performed well as a part of a small and tight knit team operating in a complex and ever-changing aviation environment.
• Completed S-271 Helicopter Crew Member.
• Initiated Helicopter Crew Member or (HECM) task book and successfully completed training assignments.
• Completed 925 hours of overtime fighting wildfires.
• Operated at a multitude of helispots, helibases, and airports.

• Performed prescribed burn treatments.
• Utilized large scale wildfire management in order to safely reintroduce fire the to the landscape and promote forest health.
• Did fuels reduction projects in order to manage the forest's fuel load and promote a fire resilient forest.
• Operated as a part of a dual apparatus module that utilized a type 3 and a type 6 engine.
• Participated in and utilized SCBA training used for vehicle and dumpster fires.
• Learned many wildfire suppression techniques including the progressive hose lay, mobile attack, and drafting.
• Initiated Firefighter Type 1 and Incident Commander Type 5 task books and completed training assignments.
• Completed S-211 portable pumps and water use.

• Completed a fire season with 1167 hours of overtime suppressing wildfires.
• Completed a fire season with 906 hours of overtime suppressing wildfires
• Traveled to many regions in many different fuel types to suppress wildfires utilizing a variety of different tactics, in a variety of different states like Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, and Montana.
• Performed thinning treatments within the wildland urban interface helping to create a more fire resilient community.
• Used fire and burn operations to suppress wildfires.
• Performed night operations on a variety of incidents.
• Operated in austere environments and difficult terrain.