So. You’re still interested in pursuing this firefighting thing, huh? Well, let’s take a little assessment to determine if you really are cut out for this line of work!
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- I love poison oak and it loves me
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- When sitting around a campfire, I always sit downwind
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- Raking pine needles is something I truly enjoy
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- My stomach is forged from cast-iron and I can gut any meal
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- I chew tobacco, or am interested in learning how
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- Nothing quenches my thirst better than boiling hot water from a canteen
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- Shitting in the woods is a perk of camping, not a drawback
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- The people in my life don’t mind if I disappear for 6 months
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- I’m ok with wearing the same pair of sweat/dirt/ash-stained nomex pants for 14 straight days
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- I look good in yellow
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- Cutting down trees to save the forest makes perfect sense and requires no further explanation
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- Hiking into a burning forest armed with only a pulaski doesn’t seem like the desperate act of a madman
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- I finish most sentences with “Copy That” already
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- I’m interested in a job that combines national service with adventure
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- I will always believe that we’re only two more chains away from tying the line in
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- I realize that 15% of the job is what you see on CNN, and the other 85% involves far-less exciting things
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- They’re not trees and grass – they’re fuel
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- I will not complain when I know everyone else is as miserable, tired, and hungry as I am.
- Smokey the Bear once told me that only I can prevent forest fires. I will not let him down.
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If you answered “Yes” to more than 50% of those questions. I have some good news for you – you made the cut. But barely!