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US wildland firefighter pay threatened by Republican feud in Congress
Reuters via AOL· 8 months agoU.S. federal wildland firefighters are facing a huge potential pay cut this autumn that lawmakers in...
Idaho’s wildland firefighters are facing a pay cliff. Fix it before fire season hits | Opinion
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThere are few jobs more important to Idaho than those of wildland firefighters. The work is...
Leaked Data Shows California Is Short More Than A Thousand Wildland Firefighters
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornia will have a significant shortage of wildland firefighters as a potentially...
Wildland firefighters' respiratory health to be studied by UBC
CBC via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoAfter more than a decade of combating smoky wildfires in British Columbia, Kyler Gaulin says being...
Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay, benefits
TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThousands of federal wildland firefighters could walk off the job if Congress fails to pass a...
Federal firefighters will quit in droves if Congress doesn't take action, union warns
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoHalf the nation's federal wildland firefighters could quit if Congress fails to avert major pay...
Homelessness, PTSD and paltry pay: The crisis in wildland firefighting
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 month agoGLOBAL WARNING : Many of the 19,000 wildland firefighters employed by the US government earn less...
Wildland firefighters call on Ontario to acknowledge risks linked to toxin exposure
CBC via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNoah Freedman has recently been reviewing the forest firefighter training manual to prepare himself...
Becoming a wildland firefighter: Students train for their first wildfire season
The Register-Guard via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWith smoke burning their eyes and lungs, and the heat from the sun and flaming piles of brush...
Wildland firefighters need our support
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAt any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wildfires were blazing in the United States — more than 850 as of late July, according...