Our Story
Our story begins in 1986. Jim Mundt, a McCall smokejumper, spent countless hours that season on hands and knees crawling through the ashes on mostly cold lightning fires to ensure that they were completely extinguished: a technique known as cold trailing.
Discouraged by the tedious task, Jim had the idea of a heat sensor at the tip of a 4 foot pole that would make the discomfort of bare handed cold trailing a thing of the past.
The following season, Jim left the jumpers and began pursuing a doctorate in human factors engineering.
In 2000 after many years of spreading the word that otherwise smart firefighters are still sticking bare hands in potentially scalding ashes, Jim's brother, Randy an electrical engineer, showed
Our story begins in 1986. Jim Mundt, a McCall smokejumper, spent countless hours that season on hands and knees crawling through the ashes on mostly cold lightning fires to ensure that they were completely extinguished: a technique known as cold trailing.
Discouraged by the tedious task, Jim had the idea of a heat sensor at the tip of a 4 foot pole that would make the discomfort of bare handed cold trailing a thing of the past.
The following season, Jim left the jumpers and began pursuing a doctorate in human factors engineering.
In 2000 after many years of spreading the word that otherwise smart firefighters are still sticking bare hands in potentially scalding ashes, Jim's brother, Randy an electrical engineer, showed