1. 1 year ago 

   As one of the 36 Corps members selected to be trained as federally certified Type II Wildland Firefighters with the US Fish & Wildlife service, after basic training in Perry Point, MD I went down to Kinston, NC for a week of training at a North Carolina State Forestry facility before heading to Baltimore to meet up with my team on spike. The experience was a window into a world I could never before conceive, long days in class and out in the field learning about the dynamics of wildland firefighting and what it means to be a wildland firefighter. Here are some pictures to share the experience.

   North Carolina State Forestry Facility - The link has pictures of the facility at which we received our wildland firefighter training with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. 

So I, Sean Kesluk, left Los Angeles for a 6 month adventure abroad in Europe and South America. After a few weeks studying the Deutsch in Freiburg, Germany, it's two months up north in Hamburg working for the city's Jewish community center. After a brief foray into Sweden, I'll head South to Buenos Aires for some Spanish classes and volunteer work in a La Boca soup kitchen. After that it's back home to the States and national service with AmeriCorps NCCC. With a month of training at the VA medical campus in Perry Point, MD, it 's off to Baltimore for my first project, two months working for The Samaritan Women, a non-profit renovating a hundred-year-old mansion to use as a transitional home for women in recovery from heroin addiction and human trafficking, in addition to expanding a farm/urban garden to distribute produce to soup kitchens, shelters, and those in nutritional poverty. The second project will see us down in New Orleans, LA doing post-Katrina work with The Phoenix of New Orleans, a non-profit which renovates homes for Lower Mid-City homeowners who can't afford to do so.

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