u/Fine_Oil_6756

I’m an urban firefighter, and I’m tired of it and want something different. I love the outdoors and I love working my ass off.

I would like to know what jobs I can apply to with the Forest service, blm, or anywhere in the Wildland fire world. I don’t have any Wildland fire training, I’ve worked small to medium sized brush fires, but my formal training is only structural firefighting and technical rescue. I’m also an EMT. I have all my ICS classes, and I have driver operator. I’m sure you guys get a lot of these questions, but I’m totally ignorant. Maybe you can give me some advice on where to look!

Before having kids, there were some horror stories I heard in my youth that I knew would guide my parenting. For instance a kid falling off of the Grand Canyon, I’d never let go of my child’s hand near a cliff. Or 6 people from my distant family in Mexico dying from eating poisonous mushrooms, and orphaning my aunt (she didn’t like mushrooms), I would be very diligent of my kids around mushrooms.

So one day, while I was distracted by one of my daughters ripping out handfuls of pea plants from my garden, my youngest walked over eating something. I immediately grabbed her, and found a piece of a mushroom in her mouth, and part of it crushed on the ground. We immediately went to the ER with the mushroom in a baggie. The ER doc came in and asked “what kind of mushroom?”. I said “I have no idea it’s from the yard.” He said he was going to contact poison control. Meanwhile, I took a photo of the mushroom remnants, and on a whim posted it to Reddit, and also to a Facebook mushroom ID group. Within a few minutes, both groups came to the same conclusion that it was some kind of mushroom and they said the name, and so I thought that was enough to go off of in the absence of other information. I went to the ER nurse station, shared the mushroom name, and she went to tell the doctor. Like every great seeker of knowledge, I went straight to google, and my wife calls poison control on speaker phone, and we are waiting for the doc to come back with his information. Poison control guy asks what kind of mushroom she ate, and my wife told him the name, and he said he was going to look it up and to wait a moment.
He then tells her, word for word, the exact same thing I’m reading on google about the mushroom. Like he was 100% reading the same shit off of google that I was. In bursts the doctor, and written on a piece of paper, is the same shit me and poison control are reading word for word on google. Thankfully, the mushroom was mildly toxic and could only cause some discomfort. My daughter didn’t get any discomfort. But I thought it was funny that we all just looked at google for help, and this was before AI chats existed. Thanks for reading. There is no “morel” to this story.