One rookie steps up as the Nez Perce wildfire crew grays

One rookie steps up as the Nez Perce wildfire crew grays

Farrell Hayes wanted to fight fires last year with the Nez Perce Tribe Forestry & Fire Management Division. But he wasn’t old enough. “Now it’s my first year, and so I’m excited for all that,” he said. He’s joined a crew of eight firefighters who will spend the next five months on the front lines of local fire response. But he represents something that veteran firefighters say is harder to come by these days: a young person who wants to get invo…