He's been a volunteer firefighter since he was 17, but this was a different world.
Mr. Spadaro, who's now 23 and lives in Edgewater, was among 18 Maryland firefighters who returned Monday from two weeks of fighting wildfires in California.
They worked 13- to 15-hour days on the Whiskeytown fire, a 6,200-acre blaze in northern California near Redding. It was the first such western fire for Mr. Spadaro; veterans told him the mountainous terrain made it one of the toughest they'd seen.
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