My history of fire

It was my first summer interning at starker forests in philomat. It was the middle of July and we had just got done with our long day of work and we're heading back to the office.  We had been out of service all day and as soon as we got back into service we got calls from our office saying there was a fire and to get back to the office  as soon as possible. I was nervous because it was my first time that I would fight a real fire but I knew I was prepared because I had been educated in the fire school I had taken in late June. We arrived to the location of the fire and it was down a steep hill and the location of the fire was right next to the railroad tracks. We had to walk down with all of our gear and hoses down this hill and about a quarter mile down the tracks to the fire. Although it wasn't big I was still in amazement to see a real natural fire. As soon as we got there we got at it and started building a fire line to contain the fire. We worked fast and hard and got the line completed in an hour or so  but that wasn't the end. After this was done we then got hoses lined up and running and started to put out and mop up the fire which took about three hours alone. In total we go to the fire around 5 and didn't get back to the office until 11 but we all knew we would take the time it needed to get this fire taken care of. Although ODF had to investigate the fire, we all knew what it was. It was one of the hotter days of the summer and it also had been hot and dry all summer long. Any small fine fuels were just perfect to start a fire  the train had ran its normal route and as it came around the corner sparks came off the tracks and landed in a pile of dead, dry needles and dry grass. This started the fire and allowed it to creep up the hill into the bigger fuels. If there were no fuels that were next to the tracks, there would have been no fire and that's why ta always true that with the combustion triangle, if one component isn't there then there is no fire.