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Looking for outdoor jobs? If you’re physically fit and enjoy hard work, consider becoming a wildland or forest firefighter. You could earn up to $40,000 for a six-month season fighting forest fires.
California Sen. Alex Padilla introduced several bills to increase firefighter ... at beefing up the Forest Service's ability to recruit and retain firefighters with promises of higher pay ...
In comparison, the lowest-level, seasonal firefighters with Cal Fire made a monthly base salary of $3,672 to $4,643, plus $1,824 to $2,306 extended duty week compensation paid every four weeks.
Firefighters employed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection are represented by IAFF affiliate, CAL FIRE Local 2881, [11] which represents 5,700 members within CAL FIRE Local 2881 and is also associated with the California Professional Firefighters (CPF) [12] and the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF). [13]
A member of the Ventana Hotshots works to keep fire out of a tree canopy during backfiring operations on the Monument Fire.. In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-25 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad.
Wildland firefighters are specially trained firefighters tasked with controlling forest fires. They frequently create fire lines, which are swathes of cut-down trees and dug-up grass placed in the path of the fire. This is designed to deprive the fire of fuel. Wildland firefighting is a physically demanding job with many acute hazards.
US Forest Service smokejumpers, based in Deming, New Mexico, 1948. Prior to the full establishment of smokejumping, experiments with parachute insertion of firefighters were conducted in 1934 in Utah and in the Soviet Union. Earlier, aerial firefighting experiments had been conducted with air delivery of equipment and water bombs.
The Trump administration has halted funding for federal programs to reduce wildfire risk in Western states and has frozen hiring of seasonal firefighters, as part of broad cuts to government ...