"I don't think when you sign up for this job that you realize the things that you're going to see," says Cal Fire Fresno Co. Battalion Chief Josh Campbell.
Campbell has spent the last 23 years putting service above self and has been on the front lines of seven of the 10 most destructive wildfires in state history.
"I always thought the Cedar fire would be the biggest fire in my career that I'd ever go on," Campbell said. "I wasn't even close."
Fifteen years after the Cedar incident, Campbell would be faced with California's deadliest and most destructive fire season yet.
"Once we started dealing with the campfire, the Carr fire, Thomas fire, all those fires just blew it away, and you're like, 'good grief, is it ever going to end,'" Campbell said.
Campbell was working alongside Dozer operator Don Smith and Redding firefighter Jeremy Stoke when they were killed in the Carr fire. He'd soon realize the flames weren't his only battle.