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1/ It's a record-setting fire season further complicated by the pandemic. "We're doing the best we can. It's still definitely a risk." Hear directly from one of the nation's few frontline female firefighters: Eleonore Jordan Anderson.https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR
2/ Anderson spoke to The 19th's @keaux_ on her "rest and relaxation day" between fire assignments.
Five years ago, Anderson fought her first fire, and has been on the ground for 25 since then, four battles taking place this year alone.https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR
3/ This week, Anderson headed to Oregon's Thielsen fire, which has spread across more than 7,000 acres and is only 1 percent contained. "The fires have been getting more violent, more aggressive." https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR pic.twitter.com/WVqhEKSkBk
4/ On top of the worsening fires, firefighters are also having to navigate the threat of another emergency — COVID-19. "...maybe the smoke in our lungs makes it bad enough where COVID is like, 'I don't want anything to do with this."https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR
5/5 And what's it like being a woman in the field? "It's tough," Anderson told us, but she also "can't imagine another life."
"We don't have a lot of wilderness areas left ... For whatever we have left, I will do this until the day I die."
A must-read:https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR
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