Redding's Carr fire is pushing firefighters to their limits
REDDING, Calif. - It's exhausting, dangerous and seemingly endless labor: tracking down hot spots still smoldering in the sage and pine west of Redding, then ripping through thickets until axes and shovels turn over the bare earth needed to form a firebreak.
But most of all, it is terribly hot.
Just ask the dirty and weary ground-pounders, who have been attacking the Carr fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest all week, beating back flames with hand tools and hoses where the smoke is so
