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Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay and benefits
NBC News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLOS ANGELES — Thousands of federal wildland firefighters could walk off the job if Congress fails to...
The U.S. needs more wildland firefighters, but the federal government keeps losing them
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoBlack Butte is an inactive volcano that rises from the high desert in eastern Oregon. In May 2022, a...
Labor shortage leaves US struggling to hire firefighters despite record wildfire funding
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe United States government has committed a record-setting amount of money to fighting wildfires...
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...
Wildland Firefighters Will Face Massive Pay Cuts Unless Congress Intervenes
Outside via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThis article originally appeared on Outside On November 17, the U.S. Government will shut down,...
Wildfires destroy 1.7m acres of land in first three months of 2024 – half of last year’s total
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWildfires across the United States have destroyed more than 1.7 million acres of land in the first...
Meet the firefighter from Sandwich who fought Canadian wildfires this summer
Cape Cod Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhen Sandwich firefighter Nicole Madden, 29, arrived in northwestern Quebec in June to help fight...
I was fire chief at Yosemite. Here's how we fight ever-worsening wildfires.
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs children in northern Illinois, my siblings and I hardly considered collecting leaves from our...
Aerial fire retardant drops are attacked as ineffective and environmentally harmful
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn air tanker drops fire retardant on a brush fire in Lytle Creek in December 2020. (Irfan Khan/Los...
Forest Service warns of budget cuts ahead of a risky wildfire season – what that means for safety
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMembers of the Snake River Hotshot crew monitor a prescribed fire near Roberts, Idaho. Austin...
