/ Leah Takesenemy, first-year firefighter, July 2021
This year’s class of Crow reservation rookie firefighters were sent to their first blaze the same day they graduated rookie school.
The Buffalo Pasture fire earlier this month became a training ground for Crow firefighting rookies to test out newly learned skills. How fire works chemically, different approaches to fighting fire, and how to stay safe were all part of the curriculum.
Carl Big Hair ran the rookie school and says the opportunity for hands-on experience was an excellent way to test what they learned over the week training. “This was a good opportunity for them. To experience the whole thing to actually dig a line right on the fire,” Big Hair says.
Buffalo Pasture Fire 75% contained
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A fire in the Pryor Mountains reported at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday was estimated Wednesday afternoon to be 5,000 acres in size.
Named the Crooked Creek Fire, the blaze is burning near Big Ice Cave on Big Pryor Mountain, south of the town Pryor and just north of the Wyoming state line. The fire is along the Carbon and Big Horn county border on National Forest lands.
Wednesday morning the fire had been reported to be 500 acres in size.
Al Nash, chief of communications for the Montana Dakotas State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, attributed much of the increased size to a better estimate.Â