Yahoo

Interior Department stands up new wildland firefighting service, despite lack of funding and skepticism from Congress

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity. This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the initial steps were complete ...
E&E

Questions mount as Interior’s wildfire agency takes shape

The administration is consolidating the federal response to wildfires across the West, shifting 3,900 firefighters to the Wildland Fire Service. The Trump administration’s new wildfire agency is ...
Daily Inter Lake

Dems want details on federal wildland fire service

A group of Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday asked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt creation of a consolidated federal wildland fire service until he can explain how it improves on ...
The Times and Democrat

Official: New standards for interior firefighting could hurt recruitment

While Orangeburg County fire officials say well-trained firefighters are important, new state standards set for interior firefighting could have a chilling impact on attracting new volunteers to an ...