Colorado’s wildfire season is now 78 days longer than it was in the 1970s. But tensions over staff shortages, low pay and stalled reforms are boiling over right as the state enters peak season. (CPRNews)
Firefighter Christian Cortes, radio in hand, watches the progress of ground crews fighting part of the Grizzly Creek fire above Air Ranch on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020.
Hillary Johnson is the type of firefighter that experts say the federal government should be doing everything it can to hang onto. Johnson joined the U.S. Forest Service in 2015 and worked her way up from an engine unit to become a smokejumper, an elite class of firefighters who parachute in to fight dangerous fires in some of the nation’s most rugged terrain.
Johnson made $16 an hour base pay as a smokejumper. She was a seasonal employee. And like most seasonal employees with the service, she worked a lot of overtime to make the low wage worth it.Tensions between wildland firefighters and federal agencies
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