Feds propose hazard pay for prescribed fires – a longstanding demand of wildland firefighters

from KUNR Public Radio: Local News Feed · host Murphy Woodhouse

When wildland firefighters are on prescribed fires, they’re breathing the same smoke and facing many of the same hazards found on wildfires, but they don’t get the same hazard pay. That could soon change.

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