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Firefighters get creative when cooking food on fires in remote Alaska fire camps. There’s no grocery store nearby nor is someone else brought in to cook. In the first few days, meals ready to eat, or MREs, are the staple. If the incident will last more than three days, firefighters order fresh food that if often delivered by paracargo drops from an airplane or brought in by helicopter. This is an exciting time on a fire, especially after a few days of eating MREs. Inside these boxes are an assortment of food such as oranges, apples, onions, potatoes, butter, tortillas, peanut butter and jelly, ham and cheese, loaves of bread, canned vegetables and fruit and refried beans, eggs and cooked bacon to name a few. There’s even steak that is often cooked by sticking on the end of the stick and propping over a fire.

Experienced Alaskan firefighters can whip up a breakfast or dinner over hot coals in no time. And there’s usually a pot of coffee hanging over the fire. Lunch is usually put together in the morning and brought out on the line to eat later. There’s a bit of a learning curve for firefighters coming from the Lower 48. The Redmond Interagency Hotshot Crew from Oregon caught on quickly. They utilized the camp facilities at Camp Nashii on the Yukon River to cook breakfast and dinner while assigned to the Hadweenzic River Fire northeast of Beaver as firefighters Redmond Hotshots Kaleigh Krings, Jesse Fenno and Adam Zais explain in this video.

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