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my name is brian riles , B R I N R Y L

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E S And what is your job ? My job , I'm

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a forest ranger with Oklahoma Forestry

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Service today . I'm in Unified command

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with the Hitchcock Fire Department um

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just I'm really running the forestry

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end of things and then the forestry is

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running the aircraft right now that

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these guys are critical to the mission .

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What you see behind us is a , is a

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control , I don't want to use the word

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controlled burn , but it was a back

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burn . Um it was the only option that

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we had at the time to keep the fire in

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check right now . Uh the guard ships

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are helping us reach our objectives by

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as you can see dropping water um just

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hitting the hot spots that we can't

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reach . That is critical to our mission .

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Um you know , we , we come out here and

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everybody has their weak points , but

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everybody has their strong points and

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when we , when we all come together and

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put our all of our strengths together ,

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it is very effective . Well , teamwork

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man , if if we don't work together ,

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we're all , you know , we're bouncing

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all over this fire and we're not ,

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we're not obtaining any objective right

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now , everybody's on the same plan and

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as you can see right now , things are

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going excellent , everybody's working

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hand in hand and couldn't be any , any

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prouder of the forestry , the local

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Fire departments of the National Guard ,

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everything is is working great right

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now . We're estimating the fire at

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10,000 , I believe this is their third