On Monday, Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Kamala Harris sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt urging them to review the pay and employment classification for all wildland firefighters employed by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior. Given the increasing demands placed on firefighters and the fact that the federal government owns 57 percent of the forest land in California, the Senators called on federal firefighting agencies to adapt to ensure that firefighters have the resources they need.
