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This Joshua Tree search and rescue team tries to head off calamity before it strikes

It’s 4 p.m. in Joshua Tree National Park and the air temperature is hovering around 99 degrees — relatively mild for an August afternoon. “I don’t want my bare feet on that,” says ranger Anna Marini as she shows her thermometer gun reading to a couple visiting from Switzerland, who are appropriately awed. During the last fiscal year, her team logged 3,100 volunteer hours, spoke with more than 83,700 visitors and took more than 13,200 “preventive actions” — interventions that helped to change someone’s risky behavior. Ranger Anna Marini’s thermometer gun reads 134.9 degrees when pointed at the ground at Joshua Tree National Park recently.

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