Wildland firefighters around the country say they've had job offers rescinded or frozen in the wake of President Donald Trump ...

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basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.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

As federal firefighting crews with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management try to staff up for the upcoming ...

The Department of the Interior employed 5,780 federal wildland fire personnel in 2024, while the US Forest Service employed over 11,300. Federal firefighters “respond to fires all over the ...

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump’s ...

“It’s never a fun thing for any of us,” said Brown, a wildland firefighter for 15 years. A six-year wildland firefighter with the Forest Service, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out ...

According to the documentary, there are a total of 115 Hotshot crews in the United States ... s applied to people who do wildland firefighter duties in the Forest Service under federal employment.