Kirk Sigler
speaker
510 appearances
72 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 9 Sep
Kirk Sigler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Interior Department identified the fourth firefighter fatality, 43-year-old Nathan Matthews of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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He and the other crew members were on a hell attack team where a chopper drops firefighters into remote forests where new ignitions have started when they were engulfed in flames with no escape route.
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Three other firefighters, Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sydney Watson, died at the scene June 27th.
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This all comes as the job of wildland firefighting is becoming increasingly dangerous, with prolonged heat waves and drought due to climate change, and more than a century of suppressing wildfires has also created a dangerous buildup of fuels and forests.
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Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
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The Interior Department identified the fourth firefighter fatality, 43-year-old Nathan Matthews of Lincoln, Nebraska.
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He and the other crew members were on a hell attack team where a chopper drops firefighters into remote forests where new ignitions have started when they were engulfed in flames with no escape route.
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Three other firefighters, Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sidney Watson, died at the scene June 27th.
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This all comes as the job of wildland firefighting is becoming increasingly dangerous, with prolonged heat waves and drought due to climate change, and more than a century of suppressing wildfires has also created a dangerous buildup of fuels in forests.
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Kirk Ziegler, NPR News, Boise.
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The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has raised the national preparedness level to five, the highest ever.
meaning that all U.S.
resources are currently deployed to major fires from Oregon to Minnesota.
The concern is whether crews would be able to adequately respond if another major wildfire ignites, which in these dry conditions seems inevitable.
At the fire center's request, the Australian Rural Fire Service says it will send 26 incident management and specialist bush firefighters from the state of New South Wales.
These elite crews are in high demand here in part because federal agencies like the U.S.
Forest Service have lost hundreds of career fire managers via doge or buyouts since President Trump returned to office.
Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
to help.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has raised the national preparedness level to five, the highest, meaning that all U.S.
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