All stations clear channel. This means the entire forest. There is absolute silence. Priority Emergency means life and death. The radio is silent for an entire hour.
Somebody somewhere's in trouble.
Priority Emergency's been lifted, and the person in charge on my fire radios that they're pulling out to safety area due to high winds and flaming canopy. I don't think the Forest Service could operate without radio batteries. I can hear helicopters going whop, whop, whop. Then I'm out of the trees and down to the road. I'm amazed at what I see.