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With wildfires already raging across country, consolidated wildland fire service critics ask what problems it would solve.

Plans to consolidate federal firefighting will inflict harm both to fire suppression efforts and other operations within the Interior Department, congressional Democrats warned on Wednesday, as ...

U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper are calling on the federal Department of Interior to “halt” its plans to consolidate firefighting forces into a singular entity, according to a news ...

While Orangeburg County fire officials say well-trained firefighters are important, new state standards set for interior firefighting could have a chilling impact on attracting new volunteers to an ...