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A crew of wildland firefighters tackle a blaze in northern Washington state in 2021. The federal workforce is in crisis due to unliveable wages and poor conditions (Courtesy of Ben McLane )
Inmates in Washington state's regular prison firefighting camps, who number around 230, are paid up to $1.50 per hour, based on experience, for their daily duties.
That could mean dire consequences for 16 U.S. states, mostly in the West and Southwest, where about 16,600 firefighters were battling more than 90 large fires across nearly 630,000 acres as of ...
The incident was the deadliest wildland firefighting disaster in the US since the 1994 South Canyon Fire in Colorado, which killed 14 firefighters. [30] The Thirtymile Fire went on to burn an area of 9,324 acres (38 km 2) before it was declared fully contained on July 23. Over 1,000 firefighters were brought in to fight the fire.
The 2015 wildfire season was the largest in Washington state history, [5] with more than one million acres (400,000 ha; 1,600 sq mi) burning across the state from June to September. [1] As many as 3,000 firefighters including 800 Washington National Guard members were deployed to fight the fires.
The 2023 Washington wildfire season officially began in ... The Washington State Department of Natural Resources dashboard reported that 1,515 fires burned at least ...
The Oregon Road Fire and the Gray Fire have burned more than 20,000 acres in Spokane County, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. The wildfires broke out on 19 August ...
Firefighting was expected to be complicated by personnel and resource shortages, and lack of training, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] By mid-May, one Washington State Department of Natural Resources firefighter had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and officials weren't sure how to get crews across quarantine ...