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." Of the nation's wild land firefighters, 12 percent are women, and Eleonore Jordan Anderson is one of them.https://bit.ly/2RyEPpR
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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 pic.twitter.com/MOsm09iClR
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5/5 What is 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."
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