When I was 5, I went on vacation with my family to Yellowstone National Park in 1988. As we were leaving to go home, we saw smoke from the road. Not knowing that it was a fire in the park itself, my family and I continued home. When we got home we found out that what we saw was the beginning stage of that horrible fire that destroyed so much of Yellowstone. I will never forget the way that I felt, even as a little girl.

Watching the news about that fire and those firefighters. It made me more and more want to be a part of the park system and firefighting. In fact, it made me want to be a smokejumper when I grew up, because without them, that park would have had so much more damage.

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