Jeanne Pincha-Tulley, Incident Commander of one of the Type 1 Incident Management Teams in California, was featured earlier in a story about returning to the scene of one of the fires she was on. Now another article has appeared about her; this time in The Union in Grass Valley, California.Here is an excerpt:
Years of sleeping in the dirt and spending weeks away from her family haven't extinguished Jeanne Pincha-Tulley's love of corralling blazes.
The 49-year-old mother of two boys has followed fire all of her adult life, a passion that has led her to become the first and only woman incident commander of a national fire team.
"Does it take a lot of brains to do that? No. It takes a flak jacket and lot of Motrin," Pincha-Tulley joked from her office as forest fire chief at the Tahoe National Forest headquarters on Nevada City's Coyote Street.
"You don't camp out in the dirt for nothing. You want to do something for the common good," Pincha-Tulley said.
Last summer, Pincha-Tulley led her team in Ketchum, Idaho, during the 48,520-acre Castle Rock Fire, which singed the outskirts of the resort community of Sun Valley. Local celebrities Bruce Willis and Steve Miller threw a concert in honor of the firefighters after the team saved their homes.
Pincha-Tulley's team arrived in Mississippi four hours after Hurricane Katrina devastated the coastline.
"We had a grand time. There was devastation everywhere. We were literally saving people from trees," Pincha-Tulley said.
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