ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- As several of his Buffalo Bills teammates returned home last week, rookie linebacker Tanner Vallejo did not spend his bye week in his native California. For several members of Vallejo's family, duty called.
Vallejo's father, Rick, and his two older brothers, Cody and Zach, are all firefighters helping to stop the spread of fires that have killed 41 people this month, destroyed 5,700 homes and burned more than 213,000 acres.
One of the blazes forced Vallejo's mother, Kelly, and his younger brother, Hunter, to evacuate their Penn Valley, California, home early last week.