FS Asks For $25M To Improve Employee Housing, $216M For Special Base Rate And Increased Prescribed Fire Pay.

$10M requested for mental heath assistance.

The talk in D.C. right now is budgets and elections. It’s a lot of the same old rigamarole we have all seen in the past, but a few changes have been made when it comes to wildfire funding requests. The conversation around housing for wildland firefighters has been a lengthy and well-known issue. Housing conditions can be so poor that many would rather o…