What happens when wildland firefighters need to access remote areas to either fight fire, resupply helitack crews, or render an emergency extraction of a patient? Call in the packers! 🐎 Many wildfires are in designated wilderness areas or cannot be accessed with any sort of vehicle or helicopter. This is where mules and firefighters work hand-in-hoof to get the work done. This is a story about how Forest Service mule packers on the Inyo National Forest get interagency partners in wildland fire,