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 ...
Yahoo

Interior Department Launches Program to Train Native Youth for Wildland Firefighting

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fires have razed 1,400 structures, caused widespread power outages, and even killed two people. (Photo/File) The Department of ...
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 ...
Billings Gazette

Interior secretary orders firefighting strategy that protects habitat

BOISE, Idaho — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy that protects a wide swath of sagebrush country in the intermountain West that supports cattle ranching ...
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 ...