“I’ve always been someone who’s fearless and immensely confident,” he said in the CNN interview. Mr. Vasquez joined the Los Angeles County Fire Department before moving to Yosemite, a park he had come to know well during his childhood, in 1985. There, he took on various park concessionaire jobs — security guard, emergency medical technician, firefighter — and eventually joined the National Park Service. He also worked as a cage fighter and a truck driver.

Source: New York Times May 12, 2020 17:21 UTC