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basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.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

Firefighters suppressing the Mosquito Fire off Michigan Bluff Road, Sept. 7, 2022. Credit- Robert Foxworthy, CAL FIRE. The Grassroots Wildland Firefighters advocacy group applauded the move to ...

Schiff added that his constituents and communities “rely on the hard work and sacrifice of our more than 15,000 seasonal federal wildland firefighters each year.” The senator said he was ...

"Our constituents and communities rely on the hard work and sacrifice of our more than 15,000 seasonal federal wildland firefighters ... that federal firefighters are not party to this exemption ...

“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 ...

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 ...

on Friday called on several U.S. agencies to exempt seasonal wildland firefighters from ... and I am alarmed that federal firefighters are not party to this exemption,” Schiff wrote in his ...

Although there are no current statistics on the prevalence of ADHD among firefighters, one in five wildland firefighters were found to have ADHD out of 302 who participated in a study done in 2011 1.

Wikipedia The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski, and it continues to be used by wildland firefighters to this day.