Fire Fighter

Okay, so one of my hardest experiences with firefighting, I'm a wildland firefighter, is so your shifts can be extremely long. Normal shifts while you are on a fire are around 16 hours, but this one day we started our shift at seven o'clock and worked a normal day and as our shift was ending around 5 30, our normal shift of cutting trees and thinning out and making forest healthy, we got called on to this fire and it was down in St. George. It was 105 degrees even at night and I worked on that fire until nine o'clock p.m. the next morning. So over 24 hour shift and that was extremely hard, extremely exhausting. So that was one of my hardest experiences.

So I'm a wildland firefighter. I was down by the Arizona-Utah border and it was extremely hot and there's this big huge mountain that had absolutely no roads on it so we couldn't drive up it or anything and we had to hike up it. We had this long stretch of line that went up this mountain and along the backside to cover. So we hike this hill, we're exhausted and we go around and we find that there's a huge canyon in the middle of our line that we need to cover and so and we're asked to go through that after we contact a command and ask them what we they wanted us to do and so already being exhausted we're all out of water and we had to climb down into this canyon and climb back up the other side and that was extremely hard and extremely humbling on how fit I was so yeah.