I was on a construction crew in between school semesters, and started off as a dozer operator building an access road.
My first real "woods" job was as Wildland Firefighter in 2001 as a temp for USFS. I was 20, and in between college semesters. I took S-212 and came out as a B faller (now Class 2). I was thrown onto a hand crew on the Thirty Mile Fire... I can say I completed my taskbook for C sawyer, but it was a sad fire.
My first real "woods" job was as Wildland Firefighter in 2001 as a temp for USFS. I was 20, and in between college semesters. I took S-212 and came out as a B faller (now Class 2). I was thrown onto a hand crew on the Thirty Mile Fire... I can say I completed my taskbook for C sawyer, but it was a sad fire.