With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.

Schiff’s letter to multiple U.S. agencies comes after NBC News reported that federal firefighters were not considered exempt from the hiring freeze.

“It’s going to be really bad, really quick,” said Ben McLane, a federal hand crew captain and board member with Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. “We’re going to have a lack of personnel ...

Frampton said the DNRC was successful in finding enough local and non local wildland firefighters for the season.

A team of 18 firefighters from the Fort Grant Wildland Fire Crew recently spent two days at Eastern Arizona College's ...