How Fighting Wildfires Works [video]

I was a forest firefighter. We always thought structure peeps were nuts. No way am I going in to that thing that has gas and electricity. I’ll take my Pulaski and dig my line thanks much.

Granted. I probably don’t know as much about firefighting as you..

My experience growing up in an area where forest fires happen on a yearly basis is that there is a different cost/benefit calculus with regards to human safety that goes on in a typical forest fire versus a urban structure fire. Eg, one building in city gets started on fire and causes the whole city to burn can cause much more loss than letting the ‘natural’ forest burn and go through its historical ecological cycle.

That being said: The people I know who fight forest fires seem to enjoy it and look at it pretty positively.

I had an emergency response training with a firefighter today and he said they call regular firefighters "pavement divas". He said he would never trade with forest firefighters. Their work is just too hard.