Sugarpine Chronicles: The adventures and strugles of the first co-ed U.S. Forest Service wildland fire crews in California - Paperbackby David Queirolo (Author) It was early June 1974, and we were on our initial fire with the Tahoe Brigade, California's first wildland fire crew with women on it. We were transported by military half tracks to an area near the fire and walked out to it along with an all Hispanic crew. It was an open area steaming with heat, and the acrid smell of burned wood filled our lungs. We were near a thirty foot hill, and both crews lined up and covered the