The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service will host a series of wildland firefighter recruitment events in January ...
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In the 1970s, not long after Bobbie Scopa first started working as a federal wildfire fighter, she was dispatched to a blaze that—at the time—seemed extraordinary. It spanned 12,000 acres. “Our ...