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Low Wages and Health Risks Are Crippling the U.S. Wildland Firefighting Forces

Inside Climate News · By Kiley Price · last updated
Federal agencies are struggling to maintain firefighting brigades during some of the worst fire seasons in history.

By Kiley Price

At the end of February, a curtain of flames engulfed the Texas Panhandle, eventually marking the state’s largest wildfire in history. The blaze was merciless, burning through more than 1 million acres of land and swallowing houses whole. 

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