End of Season

The 2013 crew has been laid off and they are now starting to enjoy their winter. Stay tuned for 2014 hiring information!

OSC Support

The crew is enroute to the Los Padres to stage.

The New Hotshot Building

The Klamath Hotshots have finally moved into their new building! Things have changed around "The Knoll" over the past year.

Where the old volleyball court used to stand, there's now a parking lot. You can see our new building behind that.

On the north side of the building is the new volleyball court. It's a work in progress.

 

 

The new saw shop and welding room sit next to the old barn, which is slated to be torn down in the near future.

 



 

The new Hotshot office, in all its glory.

 

 

 

Inside the office, the Klamath Hotshots are hard at work.

 

 

Johnny is just getting settled in to his new office.

 

 

 

There's a room on the north end of the building where each crewmember has his or her own locker.

 



 

Also on the north end of the building is a state of the art training room. As you can see it is also a work in progress.

 

 

As we get settled in to the new building, we're working out all the kinks and hope to get things running smoothly soon. Regardless of all the little quirks of the new place, we're very excited to finally be moved in.







 



Back on base

After a busy summer between Montana, Southern California and Northern California, the Klamath Hotshots are back on base awaiting further assignment. We're experiencing rain, and plenty of it.

On Assignment

Klamath Hotshots are
enroute to the West Mullan fire in Montana.

Back Home

The crew arrived back home to Klamath River on June 18th.  After two mandatory days off we've been home on the Forest.

Klamath IHC assigned to the Powerhouse fire on the Angles National Forest. First shift was on June 2.

Congratulations to Brian Janes!

We'd like to congratulate squad leader Brian Janes on completing the Boston Marathon! After coming back from an injury, he still managed to pull off an impressive 2:49.19. For those who don't know, a marathon is 26.2 miles. He finished 753 overall out of 26,839 entrants, ranked 714 out of 15,233 men and 579/5217 for his age division.

Awesome job Brian!

5th Annual Mike Schweitzer Memorial Challenge

Join us for the 5th Annual Mike Schweitzer Memorial Challenge on April 27th at 9am in Etna, CA. Mike was a member of our crew in 2002 and is greatly missed. All proceeds from the run go directly to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation whose mission is to help families of fallen firefighters and assist injured firefighters and their families in times of need.

The event consists of a 5K walk/run, 10K run and Half Marathon with a mixture of road and trails. For more information on the event and to download an entry form, click HERE.

If you're not able to make it to the run but would still like to help out the Wildland Firefighter Foundation, please visit their website for other events and ways to donate.

See you there!

New Senior Firefighter on Klamath Hotshots

We'd like to congratulate Graham Baker on becoming the newest Senior Firefighter on Klamath Hotshots!

Graham has been an apprentice out of Oak Knoll for the past few years and got his beginning on this crew by filling in on fire assignments. Last year he was an apprentice crewmember and completed the apprenticeship program. He has now converted to our crew as a Senior Firefighter.

Congratulations Graham!