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Friday, November 6, 2009

IAWF: Firefighters May Decline Wildland Duties

A survey of 3,362 firefighters conducted by the International Association of Wildland Fire showed that 36% of the full-time wildland firefighters surveyed will make themselves less available to be assigned to wildland fires as a direct result of recently filed manslaughter charges against a firefighter in Washington state. The Thirtymile Fire, started by an escaped campfire near Winthrop, Was., claimed the lives of four U.S. Forest Service firefighters on July 10, 2001. This year on Jan. 30, the U.S. attorney in Spokane, Wash., charged Ellreese Daniels, the incident commander of the fire, with four counts of involuntary manslaughter ...

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