A long with thousands of other fire personnel, we were shipped to Florida for the '98 fire siege there. More than 2,000 fires there burned a half million acres in just 40 days. At one point during the summer, every single county in Florida was dealing with fires. F lorida burns when it's green, burns when it's wet, and even burns when it's black. Here we are hacking our way through the jungle in Florida.
Vegetation includes palmetto, gallberry, wax myrtle, and southern yellow pine.
Filling bladder bags. Water was in scarce supply in Florida this year - the worst drought in 50 years. Some areas of the state were at 9 percent of normal precipitation. Just some of the equipment on the Florida fires. Here's Cathy York, dozer boss trainee, in Florida.