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BIG COUNTRY, Texas — The Texas A&M Forest Service has raised the Wildland Fire Preparedness Level to Level 2. As a way to prepare, the forest service has four single-engine air tankers (SEAT) ...
OREGON (KTVZ) -- The USDA Forest Service has announced it will be hiring nearly 600 fire support positions in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. It says these positions are vital to wildfire preparedness ...
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Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate, as well as internal concern among ...
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