TRUCKEE HOTSHOTS

The Truckee Hotshots are proud to be housed at The Hobart Work Center, which is located 5 miles north of Truckee, CA, on the east side of the Tahoe National Forest. This work center has a long history of housing wildland fire suppression crews starting in the 1930's. 

In 1985, the Truckee Project crews was created and stationed at Hobart. This was the beginning of our crew, growing into the Truckee Hand Crew in 1987. In 2001, when funding was approved for the Maximum Efficiency Level (MEL) crews, the Truckee District was designated as one of the locations to establish a crew to work towards obtaining Type 1 status.

 In 2009, with Bobby Hubby leading the crew they passed the certification process and became the Truckee Hotshots, a Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crew. In 2018, after 17 years of service on the crew, Bobby retired. Scott Burghardt, long time hotshot, detailed the superintendent position in the summer of 2018, and he accepted the position permanently the following year. Scott, along with Foreman Kevin Mecham and Foreman Derek Kramer, decided to usher in the next era with a logo change. Based on an original photo, circa late 1800’s, the new logo commemorates the historic Hobart Southern #8 Train, which operated out of the town of Hobart Mills, hauling lumber from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Co. Mill to the Central Pacific Rail Station in Truckee. During Scott’s tenure, the crew faced the challenges of the new fire environment, which brought fires over a million acres in size. In the years following, the crew revived the history of the lumber industry that once thrived on those same grounds, beginning to mill their own lumber and rebuild their own station. In the spring of 2023, Scott retired, and Brian Pimentel took over as crew superintendent. Today, the crew continues to mill their own lumber and embraces the homestead lifestyle at Hobart.