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Wildland firefighters face a huge pay cut without action by Congress – here's how physically demanding this lifesaving job is

  • Written by Brent C. Ruby, Professor of exercise and work physiology, University of Montana
Wildland firefighters face a huge pay cut without action by Congress – here's how physically demanding this lifesaving job isA Wyoming Hotshot crew conducts night operations on the Pine Gulch fire in Colorado in August 2020.Kyle Miller, Wyoming Hotshots, USFS

Radios crackle with chatter from a wildfire incident command post. Up the fireline, firefighters in yellow jerseys are swinging Pulaskis, axlike hand tools, to carve a fuel break into the land.

By 10 a.m., these...

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