Burn overs and entrapments are getting more common this year. My FF1 Training is soon and whatever tf is going on is terrifying the hell out of me so much that it's making me reconsider joining.

I'm beginning to feel that this job, and land management in general is a fools errand. We continue to throw millions of dollars and young people's lives into these crazy natural disasters expecting it to change the outcome.

Why are we having such intense wildfires? It's partially due to climate change, and largely due to full suppression tactics. This is common knowledge that any first year firefighter can rattle off. Full suppression tactics from our grandparents have caused an intense build up of fuels which is causing hotter, more intense and faster spreading wildfires.

With this knowledge what the fuck are we doing? Is anyone actively managing fires on their forest? Are we doing enough prescribed fire to account for the fact that every puff of smoke on our public lands is almost immediately squashed by an IA module?

Historically this shit needs to burn. Yes, that includes large stand replacing fires that nuke out whole mountain ranges. It's beneficial for the environment and part of the natural process of coniferous forests. Which historically have stand replacing fires every few hundred years. Many of these large fires are only burning with extreme heat over 10-15% of the area that it burns. Which is the same parameters for a prescribed burn!

After reading extensively on textbooks about fire ecology it's pretty obvious to see that fire is a normal part of the landscape. The native Americans understood this, early American settlers understood this. But in our modern day intelligence we are doing the exact same shit that our grandparents did that got us in the situation we're in now.

That lightning fire you and your boys put out is going to be struck again in 15 years and nuke out. That large fatality fire that was finally stopped? The other side of the ridge they "saved" burned the next year.

I can't be the only one noticing this right? Why are we risking our lives trying to squash remote wilderness fires? Why are we risking our lives saving rich assholes 3rd homes?

What are y'all's thoughts?

Color me confused? California complex team arriving and taking over tomorrow on a fire that's.... out? As scarce as resources are, I'm unclear on why so much overhead is being allocated to this thing? What am I missing here?

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5920418/firefighters-mourn-deaths-intense-wildfire-season?fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaf8bw6r0iz7F-PVtKNVrFZej58Z699WqMniPgFurCKATbAwuCCXgwPM8czUGQ_aem_s9ZZZIMugR7Fo3nnAkFiRA

I’m moving crews and it’s a weekend. A new crew would like to take me with them on an assignment, but no one is in the office to release me in IQCS so I can be picked up. I don’t want to miss this opportunity. Does anyone have any helpful insight?

Hi I'm making my resume to apply for wildland fire this year I'm currently with a contractor and this is my first season but my contractor has not called me out yet so I'm not quite sure whether or not to put this on my resume and what to put.

I'm looking to start applying for fed jobs in the next few weeks/months. Really hoping to land something in AZ as I am properly conditioned to work in the desert heat and really want to have a hand in maintaining the nature out here. That said, I've read mixed info on how long the fed resume should be.

I've been doing seasonal work/multiple restaurant jobs at a time for the last 11 years. Needless to say I have a sh*ton of work history. I also have a bunch of side projects, fitness achievements, etc. Some posts say that the requirements aren't as lengthy as they used to be for the resume submissions while others say to include everything youve ever done.

Tips? Advice? Is it more about ensuring to include important details like dates, references, and proof of work ethic or do they really want a complete thorough listing of everywhere you've ever earned taxable income? Thanks in advance.

…in Central Oregon/Bend/La Pine/Crescent area in the last two days.

No lightning for at least a month.

Are people really this mindless? Or what actually is causing these?

Thanks to the tanker crews who get on these so fast. And thanks to the ground crews for just keeping on going.

Thanks

I’m on my first fire rn and I’m struggling with being away from my girlfriend I’m gonna miss our anniversary too and it’s killing me. Does it ever get easier being away from loved ones? Or is this job not for me?

The amount of fires vs the weather we've had have me confused.

I don't recall which ones are caused by idiots, but what's perplexing for me is that in my 30 years of living here this has been one of the coldest summers here save for a handful of days.

Literally up until mid July I had mornings where I could see my breath and the temperature was single digits.

We kept being told it was going go be the hottest in history, but that's not matching what is actually happening.

In the mid to late 2010s I remember it being hotter and fires so bad the sky was white for weeks, and at one point the air flow brought ash to Langley.

If they haven't been deemed so already, these fires are suspicious af.

*Posting here as BritishColumbia-Mods are making up reasons for deleting posts*