Sara Gutierrez, Forest Firefighter: “Fires Don’t Go Out with Airplanes and Helicopters”

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At this time, forest firefighter Sara Gutiérrez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 40 years old) spends most of the time waiting for the fire. She is a graduate in Environmental Sciences, and firefighter in the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, she has to be two days a week on guard at the base 12 hours in daytime hours and two days reachable, then frees and starts again at night. Much of her job is to train and prepare for when the fire warning jumps on the s…