r/Wildfire • u/ssgtsilerZ • Feb 11 '25

News (General) National Wildland Fire Service — Grassroots Wildland Firefighters

https://www.grassrootswildlandfirefighters.com/nwfs

This is what I woke up to this morning. Thoughts?

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u/Snowdog__ Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

By removing district and regional foresters from the chain of command, how do you NOT end up with a repeat of the 10 AM Policy?

The culture of a suppression-only agency with no local input will be to "Fight Fire Aggressively...." full stop.

Unless these are full-timers who also work as fuels crews over winter....under the direction of Foresters....when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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u/SientoQueMerezcoMas Feb 14 '25

One unified fire agency will definitely be suppression oriented. I doubt any prescribed fire or managed natural ignition or fire use fire will happen again.