From California to Nevada and Idaho, wildfires are raging in the west. Crews from right here in Kansas are helping battle those blazes. A group from the Hutchinson Fire Department returned Thursday night to Hutchinson. The four-man crew said it’s a trip that helped them learn more about fighting fires — an education they believe will help them here in Kansas. Firefighter Cole Inghram and Brent Fisher were the eyes in the sky for the Stateline Complex Fire. “We were able to get up on a peak lookout tower that was at 64,000 feet and be able to look down on the fire behavior and watch weather, take observations, give them trends on what the fire had been doing and where it progressed to,” said Inghram. “We’re able to communicate with everybody on the ground and tell them what we were seeing, give them a heads up and give predictions as to what the fire might do.”
Source: KSN-TV
