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Life on the Front Lines.(photographer takes firefighting class to understand work of firefighters)(Brief Article)

National Geographic,  August, 2001  

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Photographing wildland firefighters at work

Attending "fire school" in the Boise National Forest, staff photographer Mark Thiessen heard teacher Norbert Schuster tell a heart-wrenching story: how a young fellow fire-fighter was killed by a falling tree seconds after he passed her on the fire line. Last year Mark, who has traveled to Idaho for the past five years to document the lives and times of professional wildland firefighters, joined with Jim Webb, a content developer for our website, to create a multimedia account of Schuster's tale (www.nationalgeographic.com ...

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