After the horrific wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles just a few weeks ago, Senators Tim Sheehy (R-MT) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) are putting partisanship aside to untangle the federal bureaucracy that limits the government’s ability to respond to wildfires efficiently.
They recently introduced a bill that would create a new National Wildland Firefighting Service and combine the wildfire response duties of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior under one roof.
The current bureaucratic structure leaves nothing but confusion and chaos as response teams with different roles and responsibilities are spread out across federal agencies, making it extremely difficult to provide the fast, effective response wildfire victims need when they’re in danger.
If you support this common-sense measure to reshape America’s wildfire response management, urge Congress to advance Senators Sheehy and Padilla’s bill right away: