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We revisit host Peter O’Dowd’s June 2025 conversation with Kelly Ramsey about her book “Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West” in which she tells the story of the two seasons she worked as a hotshot firefighter in California. The book came out in paperback June 23.
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