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What ‘Hotshot’ Reveals About the Life of California Wildland Firefighters

Rolling Stone
Story by Maria Fontoura
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Behind the scenes of California's elite Hotshot crews braving some of the country's deadliest wildfires in a new documentary that goes beyond the flames.
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  • For 6+ years, filmmaker Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann embedded with Hotshot crews - highly trained forestry technicians who respond to the worst wildfires on behalf of federal agencies
  • Hotshots undergo intensive training and take on immense risks, even though they're technically not considered firefighters but rather 'forestry technicians' for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management
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Gabriel Kirkpatrick Mann, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Hotshot
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