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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management released the new local pay scales for the nation's wildland firefighters. Here's the ...

When Mikaela Balkind trained to become a wildland firefighter, she knew she was signing up for a physically- and ...

CALDWELL, Idaho — A 91-year-old smokejumper who completed an impressive 333 missions over a three-decade career was honored ...

"He’s the head of the forestry department, and we had a horrible, horrible wildfire," the governor said Wednesday of Mark Goeller. "I didn’t think they did a really good job.” ...

“But I do think there is a clear lack of understanding about how the inter-agency wildland fire system is set up, how it works, and how people that don’t have ‘firefighter’ listed as their job are ...

Earielle London looks back as she and other students from Alabama A&M and Tuskegee Universities march into the woods for a wildland firefighter training June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala. Wildland ...

"But I do think there is a clear lack of understanding about how the inter-agency wildland fire system is set up, how it works, and how people that don't have 'firefighter' listed as their job are ...

The wage increases in the new pay scale generally fall below what wildland firefighters were making with the temporary pay boost from the infrastructure law. For example, prior to 2021, a GS-6, step 1 ...

Earielle London looks back as she and other students from Alabama A&M and Tuskegee Universities march into the woods for a wildland firefighter training June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala.