Thursday, July 4, 2024
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Jim "Jimmy T" Thomas was one of my favorite people I met along the forestry and firefighting path. We worked together on the Angeles National Forest and saw each other occasionally like the time my Incident Managment Team worked for him on a series of fires on the Wasatch Cache and Uinta National Forests when he served as a Forest FMO. Unfortunately, I lost contact with Jimmy many years ago. He and his family were returning home from a trip to Hawaii and came to visit me, only problem was I was out of state, sick in my hotel room. I was unaware of the exact dates of their visit and let them down, something I have always regretted and never really figured out. I did not know about Jim having this disease that took him away from Teresa and I am truly sorry she must proceed now without him. I have always wondered if Teresa and Jim got together after her engine crew (Red Box) and the group of forestry and resource management personnel got in a water fight at Red Box Fire Station one hot summer afternoon. I seem to recall Jimmy and his associates defeated the engine crew as they used their fire engine in the water fight while Jim and his group used the station protection lay that was attached to the 10,000 gallon station water tank. Rest in Peace Jimmy T! You were loved by many and were a favorite on a Ranger District that no longer exists, the Arroyo Seco District on the Angeles NF. That is Jim on the far right in the photo of his work group.
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