Third Place, Aerial Resources. 

Air Tanker 23 drops a load of retardant on the approaching Rodeo-Chediski Fire that was engulfing Mule Canyon four miles south of Forest Lake, AZ, June 25, 2002.  The Forest Service wanted to slow down the fire to prepare for a nighttime burnout operation.   Photo is by Tom Schafer, Show Low, AZ

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Third Place, Wildland Fire. 

Eightmile Lookout with smoke from the 2002 Missionary Ridge fire near Durango, CO.  Photo is by Mark Roper, USDA Forest Service, San Juan National Forest, Pagosa Springs, CO.

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Third Place, Miscellaneous. 

Always Ready.  All types of firefighters must be ready at a moment's notice. Taken after a structure fire on the West Plains near Spokane, Washington.  Photo is by Torben Dalstra, Spokane County Forest District #10, Airway Heights, WA.

Third Place, Prescribed Fire. 

Smoke from all directions is drawn into the center of a 3,200 acre prescribed burn unit on the Lower Klamath National Wildlinfe Refuge, CA, 2002.  Photo is by Troy Portnoff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Klamath Basin Natoinal Wildlife Refuge Complex, Tulelake, CA .

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Third Place, Wildland/Urban Interface. 

Llamas grazing in a field watch as a wildfire comes close to home on the Deer Creek Ranch outside of Selma, OR.  Photo is by Thomas Iraci, USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Oregon. 

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Third Place, Ground Resources. 

A crew builds line along a burn.  Manti-LaSal National Forest.  Photo is by Victor Bradfield, USDA Forest Service, Targhee National Forest, Soda Springs, ID.. 

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