Trump to merge wildland firefighting forces, despite warning of chaos | Trump administration
Donald Trump The US government has ordered the integration of fire control force into the land of the wilderness into one program, despite warnings from former federal officials that it may be expensive and increase the risk of catastrophic burning in the middle of the peak season.
This aims at the centralization of fire control efforts, which are now divided between five agencies and two roundabouts in the cabinet. Trump’s proposed budget for the next year calls for the creation of a firefighting service in the new federal barrels under the US Department of the Interior.
This means converting thousands of employees from the US Department of Agriculture’s forest service – where most federal firefighters now work – with the fire season already. The administration has not revealed the amount of money that change could cost or provide.
In his arrangement, Trump cited the destroyed Los Angeles fires in January as it highlights the need for a faster response to forest fires.
The matter said: “Forest fires threaten every region, but many local government entities continue to ignore logical preventive measures.” The Minister also ordered the Minister of Defense to give priority to the sale of parts of the plane and excess aircraft to support the reduction and response of wild fires, according to the White House.
the Trump administration In the first months, the funds temporarily cut off from the prevention of wild fires and reduced the ranks of firefighters from the federal government by laying down workers and retirement.
It does not mention any mention of climate change, which Trump reduced even with a global heating that helps in grumbling in the larger and most destructive forest fires that exceed huge amounts of harmful pollution.
More than 65,000 fires throughout the United States burned about 9 meters (3.6 meters) last year.
Organizations representing firefighters and former forest service officials say it will be useful to restructure firefighting efforts and cause major disturbances in the middle of the fire season.
A group that includes many former forest service heads in a rear message to legislators said that the unification of fire control works could “increase the possibility of more major catastrophic fires, which exposes more societies, firefighters and resources at risk.”
Another devastating fire season is expected to be this year, driven at higher temperatures than normal to most country, according to federal officials.
A prior proposal was found to integrate the forest service and the Ministry of the Interior to improve firefighting that has significant defects by Congress Research Service in the 2008 report.
But the idea recently obtained support from the two parties, with the Senator in California Alex Padilla, Democrat, and a member of the Montana Tim Shihi, a Republican sponsoring legislation similar to Trump’s plan. Before his election last year, Shehi founded the Air Fire Control Company highly dependent on federal contracts.
This step follows a separate measure last month, when the Trump administration is Environmental guarantees deteriorated In future registration projects on more than half of the American national forests.
The emergency designation covers 176,000 square miles (455,000 square kilometers) of terrain primarily in the west, but also in the south, around the Great Lakes and in New England.
Most of these forests are a high risk of wildness, and many of them decrease due to insects and disease.
The Associated Press contributed to reporting
