Welcome to the Firefighter Type 2 Course April 6-7 2024

1. Madeline/Maddie Thompson (they/she)
2. Truckee for the winter, Santa Cruz in the summer
3. I have been working with the Amah Mutsun Land Trust for a few years on a conservation and stewardship project, and I am hoping to participate in a burn they are doing next fall. (And more in the future! I've also just been interested in prescribed fire and indigenous land management for a long time.
4. Just one burn workshop with the CCPBA and Indian Canyon.
5. I love to draw landscapes (some pictures here if you'd like to see)

Anthony Najera

I live in Santa Cruz.

Seeking knowledge and experience with wildfires and prescribed burns.

I attended a prescribed burn training put on by the CCPBA.

Everybody calls me Mo.

1. Hello my name is Mykael Pineda and I'm really excited to be here!
2. I live in Merced, CA right now.
3. I have come to love the expanding field of wildfire and want to learn more about the physical aspect/ prevention/ management side of it, specifically fuel management and safety.
4. I haven't had any physical experience, besides measuring burned fuels after a prescribed fire and creating plots in burn scars for research (reseeding burn scars, super fun). I also have experience exploring the socioeconomics that determines how deadly wildfires can be to wildland urban interface (WUI) areas, using ArcGIS mapping. 
5. I can make ravioli from scratch

Hi! I'm Alexis Bernal (Lex/Lexi)

I'm currently a PhD student at Cal, but my permanent home is in Mariposa where I serve as a steering committee member of the Yosemite Gateway Prescribed Burn Co-op.

I got my FFT2 quals a few years back, but it has since lapsed. Because I want to get CARX, I think it'll be a good thing to do this course again. I'm also just generally interested in the courses provided by HFA.

Most of my experience is in prescribed burns with various PBAs and Berkeley Forests. I've probably been on 20 or so burns in the last 10 years.

Fun fact, I volunteer as a ski patroller in the winter!

Where do you volunteer as ski patrol?? I'm an instructor at Alpine

Oh cool! I volunteer at Bear Valley (off highway 4). My partner is the hill coordinator for patrol there. If you're ever that way, I can hook you up with a free ticket!