"Fire crackling"
"heartbeat"
"thunder"
"heartbeat"
That is unreal.
"heartbeat"
It's a pretty impressive fire.
Yeah.
"heartbeat"
That's good.
I copy.
Break. Division Delta, Task Force Trainee Wade.
Delta, on copy.
When I smell smoke I gotta' go.
That get's into your blood, and that gets in your heart and when you save a bunch of houses
and people come out and shake your hand
that's just a good feeling that stays with you the rest of your life.
"heartbeat"
When you're working with people
24-hours a day, 7-days a week, week after week, ya know
for a month at a time you build
real strong relationships. Relationships that's going to last you a life time.
"heartbeat"
Coming out here and being a national resource is a not only important to me, but also important to our guys
representing their family, their home, their people
and try to carry it on as professional as we can be
as far as fire knowledge and providing a service to the public.
"heartbeat"
That's what we're doing, fighting fire with fire.
To jump out of a plane to fight fire is pretty fun.
You got to want it. You got to want to be here.
"heartbeat"
Especially in this environment you try and have a sense of pride in everything that you do,
because there is a high level of accountability.
There's something inherently just cool about that.
Hey I see ya. I gotcha, I gotcha. I got you.
Somebody's got your back and you've always got their back.
"fist pump"
Oh boy!
You come out here and you give your best for people you don't even know.
With crews from all over the nation.
Type II Firefighter.
This is my Tenth season.
For me it's like being a symbol.
Very diverse crew.
I'm a squad boss.
"heart beat"
Copy.
You fall in love with what you do, with career.
I definitely have pride, fighting fire.
I absolutely love my job.
Protecting people, protecting structures.
That you're trusting your lives with on a daily basis.
"heartbeat"
Everything seems to slow down.
Everybody knew the Forest Service was the people that took care of the land and I wanted to
contribute to that.
"heartbeat"
Physical fitness.
You got to be ready for it.
Situational awareness has got to be up. And at the same time
got to be serious about fire.
We have to go operational now.
There are multiple paths inside
of the Forest Service.
"heartbeat"
Rappelling the first fire was fun.
There is a huge adrenaline rush with it.
Attention all branches.
"heartbeat"
Engine Modules.
Dozers, we've got fellow bunchers, we've got skidders.
Putting in hose lays.
And it takes everybody to save a house, to save a forest.
"heartbeat"
Constructing lines, so it's a ground and pound!
"Pulaski digging line"
To me fighting fire is a just a...... you gotta have a passion, and also a respect for it,
because it's a killer. It also brings life.
When it kills all this vegetation and fuels, there's going to be a re-birth!
That firefighting group
is a large family.
There is this saying that--our job--
is better than your best vacation.
It's the greatest job in the world.
My office is as big as the eye can see.
Like most kids at an early age I knew I wanted to be a firefighter.
It's not really for the money, it's for the views and the sunsets, ya know.