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One of the most effective tools we have for fighting a grass fire is: a leaf blower! It seems counterintuitive to fight a fire by giving it more oxygen but these gas-powered, backpack leaf blowers push air fast enough it's more like blowing out a candle (lots of candles!) This is a video from yesterday's grass fire at McLean where a BVFD member used a leaf blower to fight 1-2 foot high flames in dried grass. It blows out the fire almost as fast as we can walk down the fire line. | Balgonie Volun

Large dry grass fire near forest, firefighters fighting with smoke, extinguished with fire hoses of fire engine. View from above from the air

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Not all areas of a wildfire can be treated the same when it comes to attacking the flame front, and it is particularly different in protected areas. Below South Lake Tahoe the #CaldorFire has reached into one of these protected areas, the Desolation Wilderness. Operations personnel knew they needed to order an elite crew of firefighters to get the job done. Dropping into the wilderness via helicopter, or boating across Echo Lake, these Wildland Firefighting Modules have been inserted into this w