Spencer Cox: “We don't have any more Type 1 hand crews available to us.”

“The cottonwood fire in Beaver is the number one fire in the great Basin. So it's the number one fire in the country. That's going to change very quickly. We don't have any more Type 1 hand crews available to us. So the next fire doesn't get a type one hand crew. That's bad for us. So that kind of tells you what we're up against. And it is very expensive.” (26:24–26:28)

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