Two U.S. senators are pushing to consolidate the nation’s wildland firefighting force into a single agency. Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of ...

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basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.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

Calif., asked that federal seasonal firefighters be exempt from President Donald Trump's executive order implementing a ...

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

The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire ...

Seasonal wildland firefighters' orders were allegedly rescinded due to President Trump's federal hiring freeze. Following the worst fire season in California history, and with wildfire season ...

Firefighters will be using a full suppression strategy to achieve 100 percent containment of the Brady Fire. The cause of the Brady Fire is under investigation. For the health and safety of ...

called on multiple federal agencies to exempt federal seasonal firefighters ... wildland firefighters each year." "Seasonal firefighters are essential to the public safety of those who live in ...

“Firefighters made quick access to the residence and were able to extinguish the fire,” the release states. “Two dogs and a ...