Firefighters leery of moving up in job rank

Firefighters leery of moving up in job rank

25 February 2007

Spokane, USA — A survey of wildland firefighters indicates many arereluctant to volunteer for supervisory jobs after an incident commander wascriminally charged in the deaths of four firefighters in Washington state.

But a spokeswoman for federal firefighting agencies says there’s been nodecline in the numbers of firefighters signing up to lead management teams.

Ellreese Daniels, a former U.S. Forest Service incident commander, wascharged last month in federal court in Spokane with involuntary manslaughter andlying to investigators stemming from the deaths of four firefighters in theThirtymile fire in Okanogan County in July 2001.

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