Great Situation report as always. The Human touch to the updates provided on The HWU adds a lot. As do the photo's and ground truthed details from the incidents.
Any Intel on how overall resource availability and staffing levels are holding up thus far after the cuts and chaos of early Spring ?? So far so good it seems ??
How about an update on some of the past issues well covered in the near future?
Has the Purchase Card debacle been fixed ?
What's the latest on the Court Rulings in regards to the Thousand's of "probational" employees claiming they were illegally fired ?
Any way to estimate the total number of IHC Crews, Engines, IMT's, or Type II IA crews fully staffed and active compared to a year ago?
Any word if the obligations to those who accepted the voluntary resignation are being fulfilled ?
Did the back pay issues and screw ups on "back pay" get resolved to satisfaction ?
I saw this piece yesterday about the "loyalty" requirement for Federal Civil Service moving forward. It's currently part of the "Big Beautiful Bill" now in the Senate and will apply as now written to all GS-5 employees and above.... Might be of interest to readers. Link below...
Wildland fire resources ought to be busy until October.
The 2025 Wildfire season is popping. Resources are responding. Good to see.
All be safe. - always.
With that said, other concerns we have include: other than fire response - will the demand for other types of incidents tax an already distressed incident command systems.
- status of teams
- status of employees
- status of “policy” interpretations.
- cooperative agreements; state, local, federal, contractual, military, national guard, medical … all of the above.
- FEDERAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL AGENCY DIRECTION.
(This is a big one - especially during a hot, prolonged and resource taxing season.)
Keep the bad politicians out of it.
Keep the qualified Operational decision makers.
Take care of all firefighters, and we’ll all come home safer.
Especially if we keep “fighting wildfire by Executive Order” away from the professionals.
Have at it brothers and sisters - we’re all in this together.
Great Situation report as always. The Human touch to the updates provided on The HWU adds a lot. As do the photo's and ground truthed details from the incidents.
Any Intel on how overall resource availability and staffing levels are holding up thus far after the cuts and chaos of early Spring ?? So far so good it seems ??
How about an update on some of the past issues well covered in the near future?
Has the Purchase Card debacle been fixed ?
What's the latest on the Court Rulings in regards to the Thousand's of "probational" employees claiming they were illegally fired ?
Any way to estimate the total number of IHC Crews, Engines, IMT's, or Type II IA crews fully staffed and active compared to a year ago?
Any word if the obligations to those who accepted the voluntary resignation are being fulfilled ?
Did the back pay issues and screw ups on "back pay" get resolved to satisfaction ?
I saw this piece yesterday about the "loyalty" requirement for Federal Civil Service moving forward. It's currently part of the "Big Beautiful Bill" now in the Senate and will apply as now written to all GS-5 employees and above.... Might be of interest to readers. Link below...
https://wapo.st/44jtmki
I’m with Mike.
Kudos to the editor first.
Good job as always.
It’s going to be a long summer.
Wildland fire resources ought to be busy until October.
The 2025 Wildfire season is popping. Resources are responding. Good to see.
All be safe. - always.
With that said, other concerns we have include: other than fire response - will the demand for other types of incidents tax an already distressed incident command systems.
- status of teams
- status of employees
- status of “policy” interpretations.
- cooperative agreements; state, local, federal, contractual, military, national guard, medical … all of the above.
- FEDERAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL AGENCY DIRECTION.
(This is a big one - especially during a hot, prolonged and resource taxing season.)
Keep the bad politicians out of it.
Keep the qualified Operational decision makers.
Take care of all firefighters, and we’ll all come home safer.
Especially if we keep “fighting wildfire by Executive Order” away from the professionals.
Have at it brothers and sisters - we’re all in this together.
Ed: keep up the good work.
Good job Editor.