NYTIMES (Scott Dance) - Federal Job Cuts Are Making Wildfires Harder to Fight
The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.
NPR (Chandelis Duster) - Crews battle wildfires in western U.S. and Canada
There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday.
WAR (Army Lt. Col. Cain Claxton, U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command) - Northcom Prepares Deployment to Support Wildfire Suppression
At the request of the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Northern Command is preparing to deploy approximately 200 soldiers to support a wildland fire ground response operation in the Pacific Northwest.
STRIPES (Gary Warner) - Major wildfires force evacuations at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane | Stars and Stripes
Wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area.