Fire Mouse

It is a funny thing when your Captain is so used to you getting distracted that even she points things out to you. While mopping up on a 17 acre fire and making sure all the spots were cooled down, we were sitting in the brush truck. She was driving and had parked as we were training a new crew member. That is when the little mouse hiding in the tree we were checking was spotted. My Captain turns to me and says "there is a mouse, don't forget your helmet". I jumped out and got down under the branches and got some photos of the scared little guy who didn't understand we were there to put the fire out and save its home. It ran under and over the burned branches with no grass around to scurry off into. While taking photos I also made sure the tree was cold so it wouldn't reignite and the mouse got to hang out under the cooled branches.

No human structures were threatened, but I'm sure the mouse appreciates its home being saved, even if it didn't realize that is what we were doing.

Publicado el 18 de abril de 2022 a las 02:58 AM por naturegirlkh naturegirlkh

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Ratón Cosechero Común (Reithrodontomys megalotis)

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naturegirlkh

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Abril 16, 2022 a las 06:02 PM MST

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Thank you for helping to save the mouse's home.
-K

Anotado por kennalan hace cerca de 2 años

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