Idaho Calls The Military, Oregon Imports Australians And New Zealanders, And Washington Calls In Yukon Crews.

And the U.S. is cutting positions?

There has been a long-standing conversation about staffing issues in the wildfire world. It has only escalated recently with the “strategic hiring pause” that took place and the employment and hiring audit that quickly proceeded. From what I have gathered from folks close to that audit, it was found that the fire side of things had hired 440 folks “over…