VIDEO: It was the quiet time of the year for Nevada firefighters and--like the rest of us Tim Roide and Mike Petersen watched a disaster unfold in Australia. But unlike most of us as veteran Bureau of Land Management fire management specialists they had skills to share. "Watching the news like everyone else had been and knew they were in extremely trying times down there, I just wanted to go down and help," says Roide who noted the Australians have come here to help when asked. But with the holidays approaching it was not an easy time to leave family. "My kids told me I had to go after to save the koalas and kangaroos," said Petersen. "That was their perspective."