“I’ve always been someone who’s intrepid and immensely confident,” he pronounced in a CNN interview.
Mr. Vasquez assimilated a Los Angeles County Fire Department before relocating to Yosemite, a park he had come to know good during his childhood, in 1985. There, he took on several park concessionaire jobs — confidence guard, puncture medical technician, firefighter — and eventually assimilated a National Park Service. He also worked as a enclosure warrior and a lorry driver.
