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shaun first signed up for their job, they had any idea what they were getting into. when i first started, fire season seemed to be three to four months out of the summertime and 25 years later, we are still in fire season in december. it s changing. when i first started, i remember going to a fire that was 18,000 acres. and people told me, hey, that s a career fire. we wouldn t even bat an eye at 18,000 acres. the dixie did 150,000 in one day. please speak to the misunderstanding of what people think firefighters do, particularly in area. we can get deployed to these fires in any part of the state, at almost anytime time, and i don t know when i m going to be coming back home. is it going to be tonight or two months from now? i don t think most of us realize that you guys are gone for weeks on end like that. my record is 58 days straight. at least 30 plus, yeah. i did 59 days straight last summer. yeah. fire season, it s getting longer and it s getting worse.

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