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Seasonal wildland firefighter job offers rescinded due to federal hiring freeze
With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.
Ex-Ohio 911 dispatcher who admitted to starting forest wildfires gets 18 months in prison
James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.
Ex-firefighter sentenced for setting 26 fires in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest
A former fire department administrator and police officer has been sentenced for starting more than 20 fires in the Wayne ...
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Firefighters contain forest fire threat near Pattaya homes
A forest fire in the vicinity of Pattaya was successfully contained by firefighters after it posed a threat to nearby homes.
Former Ohio 911 dispatcher admits starting forest fires to 'give the boys something to do'
James Bartels, a former 911 dispatcher in southeast Ohio, admitted to starting dozens of fires to "give the boys something to do." ...
Firefighter Hiring Stalls at Federal Agencies After Trump’s Freeze
Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was ...
Sen. Adam Schiff calls for federal firefighters to be exempt from hiring freeze
Schiff’s letter to multiple U.S. agencies comes after NBC News reported that federal firefighters were not considered exempt from the hiring freeze.
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Update: 2 pulled from burning Hixson home by firefighters later die from their injuries
An early morning house fire broke out on Ashley Forest Drive on Tuesday.The call came out around 3:30 AM.The Chattanooga fire ...
Federal firefighters fought L.A.’s blazes. Then came resignation offers.
Deferred resignation offers incited confusion and alarm for civil servants of various stripes, but it cut particularly deep ...