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Idaho wildland firefighter begins speaking again after traumatic brain injury
An Idaho wildland firefighter that suffered a traumatic brain injury while fighting fire last year has reached a significant ...
Aurora firefighters return from Los Angeles with lessons, suggestions on fire safety
The brush crew from Aurora Fire Rescue that went and helped in the Los Angeles firefighting efforts said Coloradans need to ...
The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland urban interface. Here’s what that is
Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.
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Rethinking the approach to fighting wildfires
In 2024, the Forest Service and Department of the Interior combined spent more than $4 billion on wildfire suppression, and a ...
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Federal hiring freeze halts some wildland firefighter preparations
Luke Mayfield, a former federal lands firefighter, and president of the Grassroots Wildland Firefighters says his organization is hearing from concerned firefighters. As federal firefighting crews ...
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Wildland firefighters deserve better cancer compensation, NDP says
Peggy Wright, the NDP’s jobs critic, said so-called presumptive cancer claims before the Workers’ Compensation Board should ...
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It’s likely Los Angeles-like wildfires will come to Eagle County. Here’s how local fire and water entities are preparing.
Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...
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The LA County fires devastated homes in the wildland-urban interface. Here’s what that is
Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland-urban ...