Personally, I kind of made a deal with the universe that — I enjoy the outdoors so I would give back a little as far as protecting the forests, I guess, in whatever capacity I could.

Ryan Meehan

This isn’t just some ‘Braveheart’ stuff where we’re just running into fire, there’s a lot of training and I just feel we’re all very well equipped.

Things are burning a lot hotter, a lot quicker [and] a lot earlier, fire season started just about a month earlier than it usually does.

It’s a dangerous job, if you’re going to do firefighting you have to have some realization that danger and the fact that you’re in harm’s way on a daily basis is part of the job.

Yeah, I definitely would recommend it if you care about the Earth at all and you have the physical abilities and … you like excitement and adventure, 100%.

We’re just out there doing what we can as hard as we can for communities, for our lands.