Jody Forbus first volunteered for his local fire department in 2007, the year after his own house in the small Eastland County town of Carbon burned down in a sweeping wildfire. He was mainly determined not to lose his own home again, but soon took a broader view. “I don’t want anybody to have to go through that,” he said. In 2009, Forbus became Carbon’s fire chief and has served in the role ever since. Across large swaths of Texas, wildfires are an inevitability.
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