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

Weeks after the devastating California wildfires, wildland ... "Hot Shot" crews and more than 300 "Smokejumpers" who parachute into fires in remote areas. Hiring all those firefighters can ...

“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 ...

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

“I know multiple people who were supposed to start work on Monday and we not able to,” said Rachel Granberg, a wildland ... 18,000 federal firefighters, including “hot shot crews,” perform ...

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 ...

The agency also said it was working with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on its wildland firefighting positions, which it said are public safety jobs. A spokesperson for the Interior ...

There are also concerns about how Trump’s recent executive order on downsizing the federal workforce could affect seasonal wildland firefighters. McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the Office ...

Two U.S. senators are pushing to consolidate the nation’s wildland firefighting force into a single agency. Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of ...

Business, and patriotism, is booming for one London flag store ahead of the anniversary of Canada’s red-and-white, but also amid a trade row with the United States. Ray Grabo, the manager of The ...

The desire to show off national pride by purchasing and displaying Canadian flags has risen sharply in recent weeks after the United States set up tariffs for goods imported from Canada. Winnipeg ...