Padilla hopes to increase firefighter pay, create affordable housing for disaster response
California Sen. Alex Padilla introduced several bills to increase firefighter pay, expand FEMA funding and include affordable housing as part of disaster response.
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Alaska rural fire departments receive funding boost to improve firefighting tools
Alaska rural fire departments have been awarded $306,292 in funding to improve firefighting capabilities. The grant will help ...
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Wildland firefighters deserve better cancer compensation, NDP says
Peggy Wright, the NDP’s jobs critic, said so-called presumptive cancer claims before the Workers’ Compensation Board should ...
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FVTC wildland firefighter program teachers skills used in California fires
That’s the order in which wildland firefighters prioritize ... This includes using hand tools to remove vegetation in order to create fire breaks as well as indirectly attacking the fire to ...