"Boise now is home to a 727 that we jet crews around in, and it'll handle five crews. It'll handle a hundred people plus miscellaneous overhead."
When I was a ranger at Springerville, and I was operations section chief, the ranger at Reserve, New Mexico, was the other operations section chief. And we generally would fly in the same aircraft. We were only about sixty miles from each other. And you'd get a little twin-engine aircraft and you'd fly to Boise, Idaho. It would take all night to get there, and all that. And you'd have aircraft all over Arizona and New Mexico, and we would all meet in Boise or Missoula or wherever the heck we were going, at a certain time the next morning. That really became an issue safety-wise. It isn't a smart thing to have twenty aircraft flying half the night, with all these people. So we stopped doing that. We fly commercially a lot. What we mostly do, though, is contract with an airline company for an aircraft. Boise now is home to a 727 that we jet crews around in, and it'll handle five crews. It'll handle a hundred people plus miscellaneous overhead. And they use that a lot. Used to have two jets, (unclear). But what happens now, with all the fire in the Northwest and so on, they contract with aircraft companies for aircraft. One of them is called Pacific something. They'll always have extra aircraft here or there, and a lot of this stuff. And especially they know—fire season happens every year, so they have so much aircraft and you contract (unclear). I have no idea how much it costs. But they'll pick up five crews in Savannah, Georgia, and haul them to Washington; and pick up five crews there that have already been there two weeks or whatever. And he'd go home and fly into Phoenix and drop them off and pick up five more crews and haul them to Boise, Idaho. That's how all this goes all the time.