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Jul 29, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
The @NWS Incident Meteorologist program celebrates its 94th Anniversary of providing on site weather support to America’s wildland firefighting efforts!

On July 29, 1928, Leslie G. Gray went on the first IMET mission to the Miller Canyon Fire in California.
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1/4 "For the first time on any fire...the U.S. Weather Bureau has established a bureau on the fire line. Weather Observer Gray was sent from San Francisco to establish on office on Chews Ridge" on the Miller Canyon Fire. "He was able to inform the fire fighters of humidity changes"
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