The aircraft, equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS ... to support civil authorities during wildland fire outbreaks. The Best Movies of All Time Costco unseated as ...

I ask the question I’ve been wondering since learning that private crews were fighting ... the fire training certificates required to be on wildfire lines. Most of them work in the movies ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded. Jenn McCarthy has worked as ...

Wildland firefighters forced off the job by cancer need Alberta’s UCP government to step up and make sure they’re properly and promptly compensated, says the opposition NDP. Peggy Wright, the ...

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban interface.

ASTORIA Ore. (KPTV) - On Wednesday morning, Oregon-based wildland firefighter, Kevin P. Conley Jr. will be riding his bicycle from Astoria to Northern California to raise money for the Wildland ...

Baker River Hotshots crew members take in a view of the Methow Valley during a prescribed burn operation in Washington’s Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Credit: Riley Yuan When the wildfires ...

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 ...

for not adopting policies he believes will reduce fire risk. When he first took office in 2017, he issued a similar hiring freeze but exempted wildland firefighters. Firefighters and their ...

One area of concern is how the hiring freeze could impact the federal government’s ability to hire and support its seasonal wildland firefighting ... oversees federal fire fighting efforts ...

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