A four-person crew from the Hutchinson Fire Department spent two weeks battling wildfires in Idaho. Another team was sent to relieve them on Thursday. “They were really tasked with scouting the fire, providing lookout for those that were operating. This area, what they’re telling us is a very mountainous range, not much access with roads,” says Doug Hanen, HFD division chief of fire operations. Kansas firefighters were working to get anything that would burn out of the way. But many people in the area depend on the logs as their livelihood, so preservation is just as important. “It’s just helping out where we can. We got the resources and we’re not using them so it’s best to send them where they’re needed,” says Hanen. People in Kansas want answers about the smoke filled skylines, directly resulting from the wildfires.
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