They say that heroes live among us. They are the invisible heroes. The quiet heroes. The ones whose deeds go unnoticed. One such hero is RK Smithley, an aerial firefighter with an outfit called 10 Tanker Air Carrier. I had the extreme honor of sitting down with him recently to talk about what he does […]
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