With fire season basically year-round in California, seasonal wildland firefighters are a necessity, but some say their jobs have been rescinded.

Current and former employees say public safety agencies are still freezing hiring they claim to have exempted and liken the ...

The administration's hiring and policy moves are creating new turmoil for already short-staffed federal firefighting crews.

I started with the National Park Service in 1972 — when there was such a movement to reduce the number of NPS employees." ...

A group of senators is sounding the alarm about the potential impacts of the Trump administration's federal hiring freeze on the country's national parks after seasonal employment offers wer ...

It's a well-worn statement that national park friends groups and cooperating associations provide the "margin of excellence" for the parks they support, but the Trump administration's hiring freeze ...

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to exempt federal seasonal firefighters from President Trump’s ...

Schiff’s letter to multiple U.S. agencies comes after NBC News reported that federal firefighters were not considered exempt from the hiring freeze.

Each year, the National Park Service hires thousands of employees to support a spike in visitors in various seasons, but in ...

The halt is hitting seasonal workers at parks, where staff shortages can mean fewer visitor programs, neglected bathrooms and ...

The NFFE says it's already difficult to hire and retain firefighters without the executive order. In response, U.S.

Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was ...