Wildland firefighters are often hired for one pay season, typically between the end of May and mid-September. He said that in summer months, the number of paid wildland firefighters spikes compared to volunteer firefighters.
"We don't see a big increase of volunteerism for those four months that students are back at home, away from school," he said.
" the way that we just kind of all came together as a community to make sure that this one person got everything that they needed in a timely fashion," said Uwazny.Uwazny said his family was "happy and excited" when he decided to become a firefighter through Lakeland's training course. She joined the BC Wildfire Service in summer 2005, when she was on break from studying social work at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C.
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