Federal wildland firefighters can now mask up, in long-standing policy reversal
- Posted on September 10, 2025
- By The Hill
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Federal wildland firefighters can now mask up, in long-standing policy reversal
The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest S…
