But this year the fire zone has been so big he's been kept busy all season in his home base in northern Minnesota, a region that usually doesn't have much in the way of summerforestfires.
You know how last summer, during the forestfires in central Russia, I went around to different regions that had been affected in order to help people rebuild their houses.
As I wrote several months ago, the media did the same thing with the hot summer, arguing frequently that this recent hot dry summer proved a trend for extreme temperatures, drought, and forestfires.