About 15 years ago I was in Denver for a wedding and was introduced to a Wildland FF from California. I told him that I thought he was nuts and that it had to be more dangerous than structural firefighting. He just laughed an said that he and his coworkers think the same thing about us structural guys as the sane people are trying to get out of the burning building while we were busting a** to get inside! Diferent point of views I guess. But you're right, those people got stones the size of melons as far as I'm concerned!