Larson, Harold R.: - Over his 20-year wildfire career, Harold Larson has fought hundreds of wildfires throughout Canada, Australia, and the United States. Larson worked alongside the Australian wildland firefighters during Australia's worst natural disaster in history, which was captured in his first book, Fire in the Eucalypts: A Wildland Firefighter's Memoir of the Black Saturday Bushfires.

A graduate of Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) with a diploma in forest technology, Larson continues to work in the field of emergency response as a city firefighter on British Columbia's West Coast.