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US wildland firefighter pay threatened by Republican feud in Congress
Reuters via AOL· 9 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· 10 months agoThere are few jobs more important to Idaho than those of wildland firefighters. The work is...
Wildland firefighters' respiratory health to be studied by UBC
CBC via Yahoo News· 1 month 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 and benefits
NBC News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLOS ANGELES — Thousands of federal wildland firefighters could walk off the job if Congress fails to...
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...
Federal firefighters will quit in droves if Congress doesn't take action, union warns
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoHalf the nation's federal wildland firefighters could quit if Congress fails to avert major pay...
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...
The U.S. needs more wildland firefighters, but the federal government keeps losing them
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoBlack Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a...
Wildland firefighters need our support
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 9 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...
Everyone Agrees Wildland Firefighters Deserve a Raise. Why Can’t Congress Make It Happen?
Heatmap News via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoThere is basically no original way left to complain about Congress. Bemoaning our elected officials...