Evaristo Salas Jr.

I've been doing a lot of exercise.

I do a lot of cardio anyways, but I kind of upped it a little more so I can kind of be prepared for it.

I'm glad I did because it was definitely a task.

So altogether, there's going to be about 15 of us trained, and there's only about maybe 13 or 14 positions.

So we'll see how it goes.

Well, yeah.

As soon as they hire me on crew, which they may do next week or the week after, we're pretty much just waiting for that because I'm done with everything.

The other class isn't done yet, but we're done with everything.

And if I get on that crew, then before fire season starts about May, depending on the year, sometimes earlier, sometimes a little bit later.

Prior to that, we go out and we plant trees up in the mountains or we clear brush and burn the brush and we kind of,

keep the forest kind of healthy in certain areas.

But once we hit the fires, we'll be running up those mountains, fighting those fires.

There's fires all over this place every year.

And we'll be out of the unit sometimes 16 hours a day, you know, and just come back just to sleep, shower, and then eat and head out and start building those fire lines and attacking the fires, you know.

And they pay you good money, so we'll get $22 an hour when we're on a fire season.

So you can make anywhere in 20 or 30 days, you can make $4,000 to $8,000 in them.

Yeah, exactly.

So if I get a couple months of that, I can put that aside and then, you know, provide for my fiance and my little boy or I can put it aside for when I get out.

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