Fire Man: Twelve Years on the Line

I looked at Popeye on one side of me and Cowboy on the other. We didn't say anything, but we joined the rest of the crew in lying down in the middle of our fire line. Maybe this was going to be the first time we deployed our “turkey roasters,” but no word came about that either. We just laid there as the fire came roaring right up to us. The heat was intense, and the noise of the blazing brush was intimidating. With these stories, John Meyers takes us on his twelveyear journey as a firefighter.