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Panel backs bill to create casualty assistance program for wildland firefighters
Summary
Witnesses and members endorsed HR 4671 to establish a DOI casualty assistance program modeled on Forest Service practices, arguing it would improve family support, travel reimbursement, and long-term case management for injured or deceased wildland firefighters and urging complementary measures to reduce exposures.
At a subcommittee hearing on Nov. 30, experts and members expressed bipartisan support for H.R. 4671, the Ensuring Casualty Assistance for Our Firefighters Act, which would establish a Department of the Interior casualty assistance program for wildland firefighters and their families.
Dr. Matt Ron, director and research lead at the Wildfire Conservancy, told…
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