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Firefighters return to Michigan after helping with historic western wildfire season Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Paul Dunn and Ben Osterland, two Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters, drove an off-road fire truck from Michigan to California to help with the Lake Fire outside of Los Angeles. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources/Courtesy Photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Support vehicles parked along Pine Canyon Road, north of Los Angeles, California, while the Lake Fire is visible in the background. (Judy ...

Showcasing the DNR: Firefighters return to Michigan after assisting with historic western wildfire season Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Dec. 10, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Support vehicles parked along Pine Canyon Road, north of Los Angeles, California, while the Lake Fire is visible in the background. (Judy Nathan/U.S. Forest Service Photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Paul Dunn and Ben Osterland, two Michigan Department of Natural Resources firefighters, drove an off-road fire truck from Michigan to California to help with the Lake Fire outside of Los Angeles. (M...

Firefighters from an unidentified crew working along the Lake Fire in Los Angeles County, California in August. (InciWeb photo) By Kathleen Lavey, Michigan Department of Natural Resources Paul Dunn has been fighting wildfires in Michigan for 15 years, the last two of them as a full-time firefighter for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Late this summer, he got his first chance to go west, driving a DNR Type 6 off-road engine with colleague Ben Osterland, arriving at the Lake Fire near Santa Clarita, California on Aug. 24. The fire burned more than 31,000 acres of big-cone Douglas...