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Feb 2022
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EP178: One Firefighter's Story of Courag...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Jason Sautel was a successful and competent firefighter in Oakland, California. Life for Jason seemed to be perfect on the outside… but he was struggling with a darkness in him that started when he was a kid.

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