HS: …Ruby Mountain hotshots out of Elko, Nevada., BLM crew.

Underhill: And how long have you done this?

HS: Fourteen.

Wheeler: Is that all?

Underhill: What's your favorite part of the job?

HS: The people I work with. Most definitely. My second family.

Underhill: Are there a lot of people on the crew who've been doing this a number of years as well?

HS: Yeah, basically your overhead types have been doing it. I'm a BLM Boise smokejumper, and I'm detailing in this year as a foreman for Shane McDonald, he's the superintendent on this crew, he's out of Alaska, it's a new crew this year.

Kern: How many days have you guys been here?

HS: uh, we drove all night last night, yesterday and last night, got on it today. Slept about four hours, got up and hit it hard this morning.

Underhill: how many fires is your crew likely to fight in a season?

HS: ahhh…15, 25 maybe, somewhere in there depending on the season.

?: and you go all over the west?

HS: All over the United States, wherever we're needed. We're an interagency Hotshot crew, so…

Wheeler: They're a national resource.

HS: National Treasures…(Laughter)

Underhill: We hear ya. Well, this one is for an archives,we're with the university and we're building a fire on the Colorado plateau section…