Sixteen years ago, Sam Pearcy did what any wildland firefighter who loves to fish would do: he threw a fishing tournament. He called it the Rip-N-Lips Invitational, and he never imagined it would be the first step toward raising nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for the families of fallen and injured firefighters.
Today, Pearcy leads the Oregon Chapter of the Wildland Firefighter Foundation — an organization built not in the aftermath of trage…
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