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I'm Jesse Hendricks . I'm the 

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superintendent of the Vandenberg hand 

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crew . I'm out here acting as the burn 

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boss for the Watt Road training burns . 

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It's an opportunity for the fire 

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department to get some live fire 

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training in preparation for the 

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upcoming fire season . This opportunity 

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is pretty rare . It's been about 15 to 

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16 years since we've done these burns 

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and we're really trying to foster a 

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great training environment for our 

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newer airmen and civilian firefighters 

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without prescribed fire on the 

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installation . We're running into a lot 

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more hazardous fuels that have not 

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burned over the years . If we can burn 

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them on our terms and keep that fire 

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intensity down , then we will have 

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pockets of burnt areas around the base 

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to help us control these fast moving 

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fires from damaging base infrastructure 

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and assets .