Published by admin on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:16am
When Bill Young arrived on the scene of a three-acre Custer County forest fire Aug. 3, it was his eighth decade of responding to fires as either a paid or volunteer firefighter.
You read that right.
For every decade since the 1950s, Young has been answering the call to help others and fight fire. The majority of people don’t even live eight decades, let alone do something as rigorous as fighting fire for eight decades. Young credhis good genes and the good Lord for still being able to fight fire as he approaches his 80th birthday.