Ricky, who is competing in this week’s inaugural Warrior Games, has been giving back to his community and his country since he was 19 years old - first as a firefighter, then as an Air Force medic, and now as a dedicated Red Cross volunteer.

Each year, about 120,000 residential fires are caused by supplemental heaters like wood stoves, kerosene heaters and space heaters – killing more than 600 people annually.

In this post-9/11 era of terrorist activity and increasingly common outbreaks of severe weather, the question becomes “Why?”