Forest Service Layoffs and Frozen Funds Increase the Risk From Wildfires
The Trump administration’s decision to fire 3,400 workers and pause funds used for wildfire prevention comes as wildfires are ...
US Forest Service fires 3,400 workers, Park Service cuts 1,000
The U.S. Forest Service is firing around 3,400 recent hires while the National Park Service is terminating about 1,000 under ...
Feds Fire 4,400+ Public-Land Employees, Including Forest Service Workers, National Park Staff
Massive layoffs at the Department of the Interior included thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees.
Trump administration policy is slowing the very fire prevention work he endorsed, critics say
President Trump has advocated 'raking' forests, but his contract freeze has slowed that work on federal land, firefighters ...
How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and ...
‘It’s All Gone’: Devastation, Survival, and Hope From the California Fires
IT’S EASY to shorthand Los Angeles as a dream factory, a place populated solely by movie stars, award shows, influencers, and ...
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Why clearing the brush around Los Angeles won't reduce wildfire danger
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires. In fact, ...
L.A. Wildfires: SCE Admits Its Equipment May Have Ignited Hurst Fire North Of Los Angeles
SCE concedes in the filing that a conductor failure occurred near the origin of the fire, causing damaged equipment to fall ...
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Commission approves SoCal Edison rate increase to cover cost of 2017 fire sparked by its equipment
The utility has also asked the commission to approve another hike to cover the $5.4 billion it paid to victims of the 2018 Woolsey Fire, which investigators said was also sparked by its equipment.
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Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn
There were two in the 1970s, one in the ’80s and three in the ’90s. This century those hills saw the Woolsey fire, one of the most destructive burns in California history. The Franklin fire ...