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Jolley Ranch Fire: On the way back home I saw my neighbors, Richard and Jana Sorensen, on their porch so I stopped in to chat about the fire. It turns out that he is arranging to get a buddy's huge semi water truck and head up to the fire. I went home and quickly changed and tagged along for the ride. We filled the truck up with water, 4000 gal (technically stolen), and made our way up to Jolley Mesa. It was my first time as a firefighter. The cool part was that I rode shotgun on the gas tank of the water truck up the mountain in a cloud of dust made by the semi's hauling big dozers. We got to put out a sting of fires along a cutline, very exciting.