A freeze on the hiring and onboarding of thousands of federal firefighters could have deadly consequences as the national ...

President Trump’s hiring freeze is affecting 18,000 federal firefighters from reporting to work, including coming to Southern ...

Though snow is still on the ground, with months left of winter, this is typically the time when federal wildland firefighters apply for seasonal jobs, are interviewed and are eventually ...

The president's mass job cuts are hitting workers in Washington state who clean trails, help fight wildfires and find lost ...

After the largest termination of permanent employees in the history of public lands and with the high season—and fire season—around the corner, rangers and other federal employees say they’re worried ...

A camp that prepared women to become wildland firefighters has been paused because of President Donald Trump’s executive ...

The annual spring U.S. Forest Service bootcamp that gave attendees hands-on training has operated for more than a decade.

“I hope that people maybe just aren’t aware of how poorly paid and poorly treated their federal firefighters are,” says Bobbie Scopa, executive secretary for Grassroots Wildland ...

The hiring freeze, along with layoffs of U.S. Forest Service workers tasked with mitigation, could leave the state less ...

A group of brothers created a new tool designed to keep Arizona fire crews safer by improving tracking and communication.

In Arizona, the Department of Forestry and Fire Management has access to around 2,500 wildland firefighters. The state saw 2,191 wildfires in 2024 that burned 282,989 acres. Bobbie Scopa is on the ...