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Those who fight wildfires in U.S. to get mental health care under new program unveiled by federal government.

The U.S. Interior Department will create a health and wellbeing program for wildland firefighters and boost spending on firefighting efforts by $103 million in fiscal 2022, secretary Deb Haaland said Friday.

Standing up a targeted interagency effort to provide trauma-informed mental health care is critical.”

The Interior Department will create a health and wellbeing program for wildland firefighters and boost spending on firefighting efforts.

At the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, U.S. Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland announced new funding for firefighters.

Secretary Deb Haaland announced the allocation of $103 million for wildfire risk reduction efforts throughout the country.

The U.S. Interior Department will create a health and wellbeing program for wildland firefighters and boost spending on firefighting efforts by $103 million in fiscal 2022, the department said in an exclusive to States Newsroom on Friday.

The historic wildfires in New Mexico have triggered containment and evacuations at the local, state, and federal levels. The yet-to-be contained fires have incinerated over 280,000 acres of land since the beginning of April, while the Hermits Peak Fire, just east of Santa Fe, has burned more acr...

The historic wildfires in New Mexico have triggered containment and evacuations at the local, state, and federal levels. The yet-to-be contained fires have incinerated over 280,000 acres of land since the beginning of April, while the Hermits Peak Fire, just east of Santa Fe, has burned more acr...

How the proposal to connect federal research agencies and improve wildfire research crashed and burned.