The 'hotshot' life

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

River Selby served as a hotshot – an elite wildland firefighter. Selby shares the reality of the life and work of firefighters trying to save America’s western forests. And how despite fire seasons getting longer and longer, fewer people want to join hotshot crews.

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0:58.4	This is on point.
0:59.6	I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi.
1:02.0	In the Western United States,
1:06.4	there's really no such thing as fire season anymore.
1:11.0	Risk of catastrophic wildfire is basically year-round.
1:13.4	And the fires have only gotten bigger.
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