Some members have evacuated. Others are on standby, ready to leave if they get the alert.
Hundreds of crewmembers from around the country are working in the mountains, on the roads and in the air, to get the fires controlled.
Rain is moving through today, for the first time in a long time. People are relieved, hopeful, working together.
Most of us have been able to continue to train. In groups or on our own.
Floods, landslides, collapsed roads and bridges, disorder, blackouts, covid, dislocation, and now wildfires covering thousands of acres. The kind of things you hear about, read about, see in movies. Things that happen somewhere else. We see them in a new way. They look different, up close, when you can’t close the book, or pause the video. When you don’t know how it will end. Or if it will.
But we still get together and train.
This is the day we have. We might as well make the most of it.
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