Nevada senators call for swift classification of new federal wildland firefighter job

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– Nevada senators Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev, and Jacky Rosen, D-
Nev, are urging the Workplace of Personnel Administration (OPM) to implement a wildland firefighter job classification.

On Friday, the Nevada senators joined Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, in a letter to OPM calling for them to swiftly implement provisions within the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act to extend federal firefighter recruitment and retention.

This comes after a devesting 2021, which noticed the longest and most damaging wildfire season on file.

“We write to induce you to swiftly implement the requirement for federal businesses to create a definite ‘wildland firefighter’ occupational collection and to expedite the supply of the $600 million in supplemental pay for wildland firefighters as offered within the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act (IIJA),” the Senators wrote in a information launch.

Each Cortez Masto and Rosen have taken steps to enhance Nevada’s wildfire danger, together with the introduction of the Nationwide Wildland Fireplace Threat Discount Program Act, which improves sensing applied sciences towards wildfires and standardizes information assortment to enhance nationwide responses to those disasters.