They come in all shapes and sizes, doing a job they've been trained to do their entire life. Law enforcement K-9s are now considered an essential part of any police department or sheriff's office.
They come in all shapes and sizes, doing a job they've been trained to do their entire life. Law enforcement K-9s are now considered an essential part of any police department or sheriff's office.
that s bravery and heroism, but they re different. in bravery in our job is an expectation, right. but you re looking at two people who stayed in the fight that day even though they lost everything they owned. and these two are in that rare area of being a hero because of that. i would imagine nobody would have blamed you both to say i got to go be with my family. what made you stay and do the work? when i saw the house was gone, i kind of took a moment and said all right, well, go back to work. oh my god. i think i just kind of shut that part of it off. there is nothing i can do about that, but here s what i can do. yeah. you go back to your training. wow. as a kid, firefighter is one of those jobs like astronaut or lion tamer. it sounds like a fun adventure, but you don t actually end up doing it. i wonder if when matt, joe and sean first signed up for their job if they had any idea what they were getting into. seems like fire season has gotten worse, is that true?
really a story of stories. and so there is two words that are interchangeable a lot, and that s bravery and heroism, but they re different. in bravery in our job is an expectation, right. but you re looking at two people who stayed in the fight that day even though they lost everything they owned. and these two are in that rare air of being a hero because of that. i would imagine nobody would have blamed you both to say i got to go be with my family. what made you stay and do the work? when i saw the house was gone, i kind of took a moment and said all right, well, go back to work. oh my god. i think i just kind of shut that part of it off. there is nothing i can do about that, but here s what i can do. yeah. you go back to your training. wow. as a kid, firefighter is one of those jobs like astronaut or lion tamer. it sounds like a fun adventure, but you don t actually end up doing it. i wonder if when matt, joe and sean first signed up for their job if they had any idea wh
6:15 a.m. on november 8th, november 18, off camp creek road. it quickly grew into what would become known as the camp fire, one of california s most devastating and deadly records on fire. it was november. so i don t want to say our guard was down. but in november, typically we would be having rain and winter, and we weren t. now when we talk about fires we think about firefighters running into a burning house to put the fire out. but in a wildfire situation, it can be a whole town. and often it s the town the firefighters live in. that s the situation chief joe tapia, chief sean norman found themselves in. they are cal fire officers from butte county. they were among the firefighters dispatched to tackle the blaze in their own backyard. i want to talk about the camp fire and how that affected this community, how it affected the three of you.