- Wildland Firefighting Workforce🔍
- Working in Wildland Fire🔍
- Building a diverse wildland fire workforce to meet future challenges🔍
- Careers in Wildland Fire🔍
- Become a Wildland Firefighter🔍
- BLM Fire Training🔍
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- Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Federal Wildland Firefighters🔍
Wildland Firefighting Workforce
Wildland Firefighting Workforce | US Forest Service
As of July 27, 2024, we had 11,393 wildland firefighters onboard nationwide, which is 101% of our goal of 11,300. Even though we know this isn't enough capacity ...
Workforce | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior exceeded its hiring goals for 2024, employing 5,780 federal and more than 900 Tribal wildland firefighters and support personnel ...
Working in Wildland Fire | U.S. Department of the Interior
Positions that play key supporting roles on wildfires include GIS/Mapping, IT support, finance, timekeeping, and public information. For a more complete list, ...
Building a diverse wildland fire workforce to meet future challenges
Improving health equity and workplace culture. Wildland firefighters face numerous physical and mental health challenges, including exposure to ...
Careers in Wildland Fire | US Forest Service
Positions include wildland firefighter, dispatcher, prevention technician, fuels management, and more.
Become a Wildland Firefighter - | Indian Affairs
Outside of fire emergencies, firefighters work a five-day, 40-hour week. During high fire activity, firefighters must be flexible with their schedules and often ...
BLM Fire Training - National Interagency Fire Center
The mission of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Fire Training and Workforce Development Program is to develop the wildland firefighting workforce.
Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job ...
NFFE says skipped-over job duties that wildland firefighters perform for the Forest Service could mean they're missing out on thousands of dollars a year.
Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Federal Wildland Firefighters
The federal wildland firefighting workforce is composed of approximately 18,700 firefighters (including fire management and support staff) ...
As millions of acres burn, firefighters say the U.S. Forest Service has ...
(In a profession where fears of workplace retaliation are widespread, the only wildland firefighters willing to share their names are those that ...
Building a Diverse Wildland Fire Workforce to Meet Future Challenges
Every year around this time, California's wildland firefighters hold their breath as hot, dry winds threaten to spread flames across the ...
Wildland Fire: Federal Agencies Face Barriers to Recruiting and ...
In this testimony, we discuss the federal wildland firefighter workforce. Low pay, career advancement challenges, poor work-life balance, and ...
Wildland Fire Workforce Development Opportunities - | Indian Affairs
The Division of Wildland Fire Management is committed to developing and providing career ladders for wildland fire management and support positions.
As Wildfires Increase, the U.S. Is Losing More Wildland Firefighters ...
A Forest Service spokesperson wrote that since 2021 the agency has acknowledged the attrition among its workforce: “It is why agency and ...
Modeling the systemic risks of COVID-19 on the wildland firefighting ...
... wildland firefighting workforce as the fire season progresses. In addition to the health risks associated with SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks, multiple fires with ...
Wildland Firefighter Apprenticeship Program - nafri
... wildland fire workforce. This will be the training program for new firefighter hires in every region.” The new 2016 National Apprenticeship Standards were ...
Progress in this arena can complement and amplify actions already taken by the Biden-Harris Administration to strengthen the firefighting workforce via ...
Training - National Interagency Fire Center
The Wildland Fire Leadership program was developed to promote cultural change in the workforce and emphasize the vital importance of leadership principles by ...
In this report, Varney, a federal wildland firefighter and researcher with the Climate and Energy Policy Program, delves into workforce challenges relating to ...
FACT SHEET: BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES ...
Investing in our wildland firefighting workforce is a matter of national security as there are more than 460 million acres of land at ...