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Wyoming county fire chiefs tell appropriations committee demand for hand crews and overhead outpaced supply; dispatch data show 509 crew requests in 2024–25
Wyoming Joint Appropriations Committee · October 20, 2025
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Summary
County fire chiefs told the Joint Appropriations Committee they logged hundreds of requests for hand crews and overhead in 2024–25 and that supply sometimes lagged demand.
County fire wardens and chiefs told the committee that local capacity for hand crews, trained overhead and emergency funding remain brittle in the face of rising wildfire demand.
Chad Cooper (Silva County Unified Fire), J. R. Fox (Campbell County), Jason Coy (Laramie County Fire Authority) and John Rutherford (Carbon County) described how improved coordination with State…
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