McCarthy had accepted a seasonal wildland firefighter position in Alaska ... we cannot afford to diminish the tools at our disposal to fight these fires," he added. In December, a U.S. Forest ...

"In the face of increasingly destructive wildfires, we cannot afford to diminish the tools at our disposal ... preparedness or readiness of federal wildland firefighters.

Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...

On Friday, the Linn-San Manuel Volunteer Fire Department — which hosts the forestry service at its station along State ...

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One bill would increase wildland firefighter pay to help recruit ... The third bill would increase FEMA funding for positioning firefighting tools in high-risk areas before disaster strikes.

“The equipment that was lost predominantly ... In addition to insurance options and funding from the wildland firefighter program, Caughey said there may be federal resources that are nearing ...

Prior to 1911, similar tools had been invented for the purposes ... Credit: Wallace Mining Museum Wildland firefighters began regularly using the Pulaski by the early 1920s, and it has become ...

Peggy Wright, the NDP’s jobs critic, said so-called presumptive cancer claims before the Workers’ Compensation Board should ...

American wildland firefighting today is built on a complex ... More personnel or equipment would not have meant that the Palisades or Eaton fires would have been suppressed in a day or two.

They also got equipment ready to push back the fire as soon as the winds calmed down, which happened the week after the Eaton and Palisades started. Even as winds are dying down, and firefighters ...