Mark’s second, and third brush with death.

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I was in Fresno for the fire season. I was scheduled to have duty for six days a week for five months. I was between my two marriages. This was just a day before the 9/11 attack on our country. I remember it as if it was just yesterday. I was driving to the firebase the morning after my last two brushes with death when I stopped for fuel for my truck. As I entered the station market, I glanced at the elevated television. I saw the twin towers in NYC burning. I thought; "That's a movie…

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Mark’s last adventure.

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It was the summer of 2008. I had been sent to Cal Fire's base in the city of Ukiah. I had the goal of paying off our home's mortgage. As I had done in summers past, I saved the per diam that I received by not renting an apartment. I instead slept in the wilderness. My duty cycle was 15 hours a day and I was only allotted one day off every week. And my wife was insistent that I would come home on my day off each week. It seemed money foolish to rent an apartment…

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