Скачать или смотреть More complex wildfires prompt changes for US wildland firefighting workforce

(8 Apr 2024)
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Location not given - 26 March 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“This time of year. It's always tough is, you know, our meteorologists and the folks who do long term forecasting generally don't like to commit to anything because, it is really just a guess this far out”

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Prescott, Arizona – 28 February 2024
2. Students dig line

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“But, we've obviously seen some, some fire behavior and some extreme conditions in Texas. Oklahoma.”

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ARCHIVE: Downieville, California - 9 June 2023
4. Drone video of forest

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“We know the Great Lakes area is drier than normal. Ahead of schedule. And then certain parts of the country are, sitting with a significant snowpack. And then in other parts of the country are sitting with, with less than normal.”

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ARCHIVE: Near Sanford, Texas - 29 February 2024
6. Fire seen burning across open field

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“My my personal opinion is, is we're going to be busy. I couldn't tell you exactly where right now, but we are going to be busy.”

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ARCHIVE: Stinnett, Texas – 29 February 2024
8. Burned van

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“So in order to keep that workforce going and, to, continue to, to feed the system of leadership throughout the workforce, we're we're constantly bringing in new folks.”

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ARCHIVE: Downieville, California, - 9 June 2023
10. Drone video of forest

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“Once they come in, they start receiving a lot of training, a lot of development.”

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Truckee, United States - 3 March 2024
12. Snowpack in Truckee

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“And I think a first year is probably the most important year, obviously. It's when somebody decides and and determines whether this line of work is good for them. It's, it's a lot of work where you don't know where you're going to be the next day. It's very dynamic. A lot of unknowns. There's, there's boring time downtime. There's, extremely exciting time. And, some people, it's a perfect fit, and some people it's not."

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ARCHIVE: Lassen County, California - 17 August 2021
14. Dixie fire at night

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Location not given - 26 March 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Robertson, US Forest Service:
“You know, it's a it's a largely seasonal workforce. Well, that that, in, in a lot of ways is changing as we have, started to develop and started to evolve our organization.”

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Prescott, Arizona – 28 February 2024
16. Wildfire student in class

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Washington - 1 April 2024
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rupert, US Department of the Interior:

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Prescott, Arizona – 28 February 2024
18. Fire academy students walking in field

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Washington - 1 April 2024
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Rupert, US Department of the Interior:

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ARCHIVE: Skellytown, Texas - 1 March 2024







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