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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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 in
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.
There are now more than three dozen major fires burning mostly in the west, which is baking in a heat wave.
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All this comes as the U.S.
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Forest Service, the country's lead firefighting agency, has lost close to 6,000 employees since last year.
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Timothy Inglesby is a retired Forest Service firefighter in Oregon.
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Call it a paradox in which when wildfire activity is surging, the federal wildland fire workforce is shrinking.
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