I was working in the northern part of New Mexico training to be a Wildland Fire Fighter. In September 2003 (maybe the second week of that month) I was dispatched with 22 other people to the Del Loma Fire in the Shasta/Trinity Forest area, the Northern part of California. Each Crew had about 20 people, our plane that left Albuquerque held 2 crews. For almost the whole two weeks, we were all on standby. On the 4th to the last day of our 2 weeks of Fire call, we were setting up camp close to a river, about 5-10 miles out from the original forest fire. It was close to sun down when, a couple of guys were amazed at something. I heard them from inside my tent, but just ignored the whole thing until one of my crew members came and pulled me out of my tent.
I had no idea what I was supposed to be looking at or for. He pointed across the river and I was in shock when he pointed out the biggest, hairiest mammal I had ever seen just walking along the river side minding his own business. It stopped and looked at us. The way he stood on his hind legs was like an ordinary human. He had dark, long hair and stood about 7ft tall with a muscular build.
At this point I was the 4th person standing there in amazement. Maybe about 5 minutes of watching him watch us, with more people coming out with flashlights (because the sun was still going down) he darted in to the trees. He was running, taking long strides, and was gone in about 3 seconds…..and was literally pushing trees out of his way (not breaking them, but pushing them out of his way). The trees behind him on his path up the mountain were swaying back and forth. I was surprised to see to these trees moving because they are thick in width and very tall.
By this time it was dark but lit enough to see which way he was headed. Up the mountain a little, there was a clearing, where we spotted him again before he disappeared for good. He made no noise, no yelling or screaming. He was just as timid as can be.
I have heard many stories about Bigfoot, and known that they are real but when seeing one in real life….you get a sense of respect for them and just have that feeling that there is more to life than you know.
Credit: http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=13419
r v
Move over, Smokey Bear. We’ve got a new mascot. Now if we could just put him on security duty for the damned arsonists.
Debbie C
I agree with you!
Travis R
Nice.
Matt f
welcome to the club im not in yet.
Papa - Yeti
What I really find great about this encounter, is that it really shuts – up the pie holes of hard Skeptics! Why? Because Smoke Jumpers, and Fire crews are all business no bull shit people putting their own lives on the line, some perish in those forest fires, some die when their transport air craft crash into mountains because of flight errors, and mechanical failures. And so this man’s statement that he and others of the 22 men crew of the Fire fighters saw a SASQUATCH!! If it looks like a Sasquatch and moves like a Sasquatch then is not a hoax or a damn duck! So in this encounter case. Perfect encounter case and may there be many more just like this one.
Christopher c
I agree with you POPS! like they say the majority or 80-90% percent of our judicial system is based on witness testimony still even though 22 firefighters witnessed the creature, the skeptics still want to muck it up as a hoax!
david s
Does anyone know if firefighters in the forests have video recorders of any type? I would think they might come in handy for them.
I am continually amazed at how many people see these creatures and don’t get pics or footage.
I often thought these fires would drive BF out in the open and that a really good video would come of it with many witnesses.
Christopher c
One of my favorite multi- witness reports from the bfro.
Mike B
In 96 we were spiked out up in the wallowas on the bull fire.our food was brought to us in a sling on the bottom of a helo twice a day in bear buckets.a bear bucket needs opposable thumbs to open.we were on that ridge for about a week and every nite something would circle camp all night long and when we woke in the morning one or two bear buckets would be gone.it wasnt agro and mabe half the crew saw it at diferent times.we were lucky.we had no where else to go.they flew us in,they flew us out.the indian crew from alaska about 3/4 of a mile down the trail didnt have any problems that I know of.just us.we lost some left overs and mabe changed a few pairs.