Cerro Coso Community College, the Eastern Sierra Business Resource Center and strategic community partners have launched an ...

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After growing up in a Marine Corps family, Tiege Downes enlisted out of high school. As a Marine in a scout-sniper platoon, he deployed overseas and expected he’d go to college after his active-duty ...

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 ...

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The Western United States is in the midst of fire season. Here in Washington, the Burdoin Fire in the Columbia Gorge has burned more than 10,000 acres. The Bear Gulch Fire on the peninsula has closed ...

After a slew of firings and deferred resignations last winter, the loss of federal workers left holes throughout the Northwest. “When we get to peak fire season, it’s kind of an all-hands-on-deck call ...

US Forest Service downsizes, loses 15% of workforce Firefighters face shortages after 1,400 support staff leave, critics say USFS says firefighters ready for above-normal fire year prediction July 21 ...

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