Can you see yourself spending days camping out in wilderness by night, then fighting raging wildfires during the day? Or maybe you'd rather be carrying a chainsaw, felling trees to stem a blaze in a forest of jack pine and spruce.
Not tough enough? Yeah, not many are.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has a pool of wildland firefighting talent to draw from here at home, and to send to other states and Canada when help is needed. In this article, the DNR explains how fighting different kinds of fires keeps their teams fresh, and helps them share skills:
"For wildland firefighters, training is a continual endeavor throughout their careers.
With typically several large wildfires burning in the western United States each summer, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is often among those agencies called upon to send available firefighters and equipment to help battle those challenging wildland blazes, which often blacken thousands of acres.