Hotshot Captain | Interviewed April, 2014 | California
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Brian Laird, a Hotshot Captain, talks about his favorite thing about being a Hotshot, the fact that most people who are Hotshots really want to be there, despite the hard work and conditions. Interviewed: 05/2014
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How does Brian view the role of fire in the environment?
“I don’t know that some people would like to hear it like this, but I see it as—fire is like, I mean, it’s a force of Mother Nature…you know, some of those really catastrophic fires that really scorch the land and take out large stands of timber or whatever, it takes a long time, but eventually we get healthy regrowth.”
