Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited
The order revives a decades-old 10 a.m. rule as critics question a policy that federal agencies say can stop threats faster.
- The Trump administration revived a policy to quickly suppress all new wildfires, reversing a decades-long trend of allowing some fires to burn.
- A consolidation of federal firefighters into a new agency called the U.S. Wildland Fire Service has caused confusion for some firefighters.
- The policy change benefits private fire aviation companies tasked with attacking blazes quickly, such as Bridger, a leading aerial firefighting company.
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Trump Admin Seeks To Revive Long-Discredited Wildfire Policy Amid Massive Blazes In The West
The deaths of three firefighters in Colorado are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire agency and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly.
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Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited
The deaths of three firefighters in Colorado are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire agency and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly.
'Full suppression': As wildfires worsen, Trump administration revives policy to stomp out all fires quickly
The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administrations creation of a new federal fire service and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly.One of the killed firefighters worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, created this year without customary congressional approval by drawing personnel from four agencies within the Interior Depart…
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