Contact your representatives
Because wildland firefighters are limited in their ability to advocate for themselves (due to federal employment regulations), they cannot adequately advocate for themselves or their families. In order to create genuine improvements wildland families must step up and speak out.
Below are scripts you can use to contact your representatives. We hope this will make it easier to speak to them.
Tell Congress to halt the consolidation of firefighting resources.
Implementing structural overhauls and shifting lines of command in the middle of active fire season is egregious and dangerous, especially without direct consultation from the firefighters and field-going employees who work the lines.