U.S. wildland firefighter efforts may soon be consolidated under a new bill introduced by Senators Alex Padilla and Tim ...

According to a letter sent by a group of Senators and Representatives, 3,400 employees from the U.S. Forest Service are part ...

That’s why there’s photos of undamaged ... just next to it. The fire destroyed more than 5,000 structures and killed 22 people. “There’s actually a legal or technical forestry definition of the ...

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 ...

As federal firefighting crews with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management try to staff up for the upcoming ...

In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...

According to the bill and Sen. Sheehy's office, the consolidated firefighting agency, housed under the Department of the ...

The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest Service employed over 11,300. Federal firefighters “respond to fires all over the ...

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