Before Entrapment

Chronology: July 10

1300: NWR crew 6 crewmember was sent to wake the Entiat crew and return them to the fire.
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1311: Air attack arrived over the fire.
1400: The Entiat crew returned to the fire.
1400+: Because of threatening fire behavior, the IC removed the crewmember serving as a lookout on the east side of the river.
1430: Crew boss trainee suggested that the Entiat crew take over the fire. The Entiat foreman declined, saying: "This is nothing we want to mess with either. We did not have any anchor, spots everywhere. There wasn't anything we could do."
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