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It s California wildfire season. But firefighters say federal hotshot crews are understaffed Anna M. Phillips © Provided by The LA Times A Forest Service hotshot crew from Arizona works on a backfire operation north of Mt. Wilson on Angeles Crest Highway in 2020. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) As another wildfire season looms over California, the U.S. Forest Service is running short of the most experienced and elite firefighters in the country the forestry crews known as hotshots, who travel the nation putting out wildfires, according to interviews with union officials and agency employees. A combination of low pay, competition from state and local fire departments and exhaustion from fire seasons that are longer and more devastating than in the past has eroded the federal government s ability to hire new firefighters and retain the most skilled. Nowhere is this more true than in California, where entry-level Forest Service firefighters in certain pa

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