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The heat wave that had gripped the West for the past month finally broke, and the nation’s firefighting crews got a brief respite. No one expected it to last, but Josh and the other Jupiter Point Hotshots took full advantage. When they weren’t catching up on their sleep and doing their daily PT training, they held big barbecue feasts at the base and helped out with local fire mitigation efforts like brush-clearing.
Jupiter Point was definitely growing on Josh. In his firefighting career, he’d been based in Colorado, Arizona, and now California, and he had friends in all those places. He always enjoyed getting to know the towns where he spent his summers, but he was never tempted to settle down in them. A good, friendly relationship was as far as he wanted to go.
That principle applied
