Hundreds of thousands of feet of fire hose in different sizes were used to fight the Cerro Pelado Fire.
As the fire becomes more contained, firefighting equipment is gathered up and returned to the fire camps.
There crews sort, inspect and repack the equipment to be returned to various warehouses (fire caches) where it is further refurbished and cleaned, then restocked for use on the next fire.
Here a hose rolling machine is being used to coil up some of the hose brought back in from the fireline.
Photo by PIO Kathleen Arnoldus.
Original source can be found here.
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