Mitchell Brookins:  

Life Hi, Unlike many of my fellow classmates, I never got married and therefore have no children. I believe those two things are necessarily conjoined. I followed an education that followed my passions in wildland fire fighting in fire suppression activities across the west. It is likely that my academic and fire suppression passions precluded my development of a family but life has been a wonderous adventure regardless including many interesting and great people. I have lived in worked in states from Texas to Oregon and have found neat places in Texas as well as Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico. I always find myself returning to a little cabin high in the Sierra Nevada in Kings Canyon National Park only 80 miles or so from the place I grew most of my adolescent life, Porterville. I went to our ten year reunion and ran into many people that I hadn't seen for years and one special lady in particular.....LA was too crazy for me....I didn't make the 20 year because of a large group of fires in Yosemite. 30 years just seemed too far away and a buddy was having his birthday party much closer to home although I ...Expand for more