Second Lt. Caroline West, crew seven team lead, assigned to Task Force First Round, out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., climbs down a hill while conducting fire suppression techniques in the Colville National Forest, Wash., Aug. 26, 2015. West, and her Soldiers, helped lay a handline, which is designed to help stop a fire from burning a more forest in its path.

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