Arizona wildfire crews could be impacted by government layoffs
According to a letter sent by a group of Senators and Representatives, 3,400 employees from the U.S. Forest Service are part of that layoff.
PICTURES: After heavy rains, debris flows hit Southern California community scarred by fire
Residents of a Southern California mountain community near the Eaton Fire burn scar were digging out of roads submerged in ...
Trump funding freeze halts wildfire prevention work
The Trump administration has halted funding for federal programs to reduce wildfire risk in western U.S. states and has ...
Trump wants states to clean up forests to stop wildfires. But his administration cut off funding.
The decision undermines Trump’s repeated insistence that communities need to clear combustible materials like fallen branches ...
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The LA Fires destroyed many homes and lives, but what did they do to firefighters? A new study could provide answers
In recent years, studies have shown wildland firefighters are exposed to dangerous toxins – with one late 2024 paper identifying 31 known carcinogens on the fireline. Researchers have already ...
Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff
Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.
Covering the Devastation of Water, and Then Fire
Isabelle Taft, a reporting fellow for The New York Times, writes of the parallels and differences in covering hurricanes and ...
Trump hiring freeze halts onboarding of federal firefighters
President Trump’s hiring freeze is affecting 18,000 federal firefighters from reporting to work, including coming to Southern ...
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‘National Wildland Fire Service,’ federal firefighter consolidation push kicked off by U.S. senators
U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...