>>2465579 Certainly takes a special breed. You have to be what most Americans would call “extremely” fit, willing to work on a team, willing to risk your life on a daily basis, sometimes risk what’s left of your sanity when you’re sitting around for hours on end just making sure one little flame doesn’t move across your line, and definitely be willing to eat crappy cliff-bar-esque snacks all day every day.
Don’t listen to articles preaching what fighting wildfires is about, go politic at a station near you and communicate face to face with the folks you could be working with, bring your hiking/running clothes because they may love you and wanna take you on a hike to see where you’re at physically and mentally.
This shit is so fucking easy if you like dirt, shitting/pissing/sleeping outside, fucking around on “federal” land with your pals, and playing with hand tools or chainsaws.
Cutting down live trees to save thousands, potentially millions of acres of green land is as devastating as it gets. Remember, this terrain is SUPPOSED to burn, it NEEDS to burn. Don’t he sad it’s gone, be happy it’s fertilizing the soil for more trees
