I had a couple of my guys back in Porterville [USFS] who served in New York, and they said the one thing that stood out was the great unity.

I got the call, and I immediately prepared myself for what I had been seeing on TV.

I can’t speak for what’s going on at the Coast yet, because I’m not there yet, but I do know that from what I do know the same kind of trend is happening, and the...

This is what we [USFS] do for a living. Putting out fires or helping people, this is our job.

But every time I feel a bit uncertain, I think about the team I’m going with. We got a quite a team.