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The Mill Creek Hotshot Crew is a 20 person, Region 5, California Hotshot Crew. The crew has a history that dates back to 1975. At that time the crew was established at the Mill Creek Ranger Station on the San Gorgonio Ranger District of the San Bernardino National Forest. The Mill Creek Hotshots appeared and disappeared several times during the next eight years with their first run from 1975 through 1978 under Superintendent Mike Goldenbee. The crew was then disbanded for several years and was re-established in 1980. George Motschall became the next superintendent, but the crew became the victim of more budget cuts and disappeared at the end of the 1982 fire season along with several other Southern California Hotshot Crews from the Cleveland and Angeles National Forests. The Mill Creek Hotshots were resurrected in 2002 as part of a dramatic build up of fire suppression resources in California with increases of the federal fire management budget. The crew is quartered at the Mill Creek Station on the Front Country Ranger District and still uses the same facilities as the original Mill Creek Hotshots three decades ago. The crew received Hotshot status in the fall of 2003 and continues to serve in the tradition of the Mill Creek Hotshots of years past and the California Hotshot Community.
To contact the Mill Creek Hotshots telephone Pete Coy at (909)382-2902, 2903, 2904
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