Fire! Fireman! Fire Concert Ts!

My husband was off on his first fire of the season this past week...and his first one working for the "bureau"... here! It was demobilized a few days after he arrived because of unsafe conditions created by heavy rains and mud. The notion of "unsafe conditions" at a 44,000 acre forest fire base camp strikes me as kinda funny. Miss G was not pleased.
One of my favorite aspects of this strange wildland fire subculture is...the "fire T-shirt." Sometimes they are produced by people who do this year-round, who are organized, and design and produce these garments for large fires all over... Sometimes its just some lady under a pop-up rain tent sellin' t-shirts she made at zazzle.com. Here's my latest fire t-shirt! For those of you who remember my long-time foot injury, oddly, it happened where the fire is...in Beaver, Utah.

I think the "fire T-shirt" is perfectly American... simultaneously grotesque in its commercialization of a natural disaster, and also opportunistic in its make-a-buck approach. This one is kind of obvious, but practical... I guess this one isn't a "fire" shirt, and is more of a company shirt, but I like to include it in my tiny yet growing collection anyway.

This one really takes the cake for fire T-shirts. It's the "black 1987 Metallica concert" equivalent of a fire T... vultures... flames... red slurry... inclusion of aircraft... so over the top... I love it! I love my latest includion too, but it seems so reserved and sophisticated compared to this one! :) 2007...? 2007? Wait... how did we get so far away from 2007...???