The woman who ran toward wildfires and came out a hotshot

23/05/2025 29 min
The woman who ran toward wildfires and came out a hotshot

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Episode Synopsis

When Kelly Ramsey joined an elite unit of wildland firefighters called the "hotshots" in Northern California, she thought she knew what she was signing up for. But climate change has flipped a switch, transforming wildfires from a natural occurrence into an unstoppable force. We’ll hear her story and check in with firefighters in Canada and Australia about what it now takes to put out the flames.