'People are burned out': Brutal fire season is taking a toll on firefighters' mental health

Josh Baker just got home from a 50-day deployment to three California wildfires. Although his job wasn’t dangerous – he worked on a support team, making calls to track down equipment such as port-a-potties and bulldozers – the hours were long, the stakes were high and the work was exhausting.

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