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Yup'ik Raven This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He wants to share these works for others to use as an example of culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned and are available for educational use only.


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Fire fighting with Frank Amouak and Wesley Pitka Second Fire

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"Fire fighting with Frank Amouak and Wesley Pitka"

Second Fire

The second fire they went to was 12 miles out of McGrath, at a place called Takotna. Thug left Marshall at 1:30 A.M. and landed in McGrath at 3:30 A.M. They staged in McGrath from 3:30 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. Then they took off and got to Talcotna at 11:30 P.M. The whole crew camped in Takotna, then they left there at 3:30 P.M. and camped two and a half miles northeast of Takotna. They started a regular camp there.

The fire that they fought was 13,700 acres in extent. There were 17 crews working on the fire from three different base camps. The highlight of the whole trip was backburning. Backburning means cutting a fire line, then burning back towards the fire source.

The second most exciting thing was the bears which were always bothering the camp. The bears bothered Spike camp A the most because there was a guy there that hid MRE's under his tent. That was why a bear went under the tent to get it, because it smelled the food.

When we returned we took off at 9:00 A.M. and got to Takotna at 9:15 A.M. We left Takotna at 3:30 P.M. and got to Marshall at 5:00 P.M. And that was the end of it.

Palassa Sergie

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