Casey

"I first started outta high school. I went into the Butte Fire Academy up in Chico."

"I do a full rig checkout, make sure that my ladder works, uh, my air brand, my pump works, all the intricates of the actual fire engine itself is all safe to drive and I have all the equipment appropriate that I, I need."

"So we are on a 48 96 schedule. I get here at seven 30 in the morning, and I don't leave until Sunday morning at seven 30 in the morning."

"usually when people call 9 1 1, it's the worst day of their life. So we're there to, we're there to, we're there to fix it."

"It's my home away from home. My mates for a third of the month. We're all really good friends and it's station life is absolutely amazing."

"Just about any call that we go on is a challenge. You don't necessarily know what you're going on to and have very limited information."

"What I like most about being in my industry is the community. I love serving the community that I was born and raised in."

"People who thrive in this community are...we all kind of got into this career for the same reasons: we want to help people."

"Learning how to be a good cook would probably be the biggest understatement that I was not really prepared for in college."

"And, um, you do wildland suppression. So all the big forest fires all over the United States."

"I'm always training, I'm always learning more. You never just gonna stop training."

"getting my basics down so I'd be prepared for, uh, for my next job position."