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>> you're precisely right. good evening, ali. it's great to be with you. thanks for having me on. look, we are pushing our federal firefighting workforce to a breaking point, and it has to change. i think the president is right when he talks about the need to ultimately ensure that these firefighters who are sacrificing so much on behalf of our communities, that ultimately they are well compensated. and as wildfires grow across the west, they become more intense, they become more dangerous, exacerbated by climate change as you know, federal firefighters are leaving behind their lives, their fa...

To have you with us, we are pushing our firefighting workforce to a breaking point, and it has to change. i think the president is right when he talks about the need to ultimately ensure that these firefighters who are sacrifice and so much on behalf of our communities, that ultimately there were welcomes as wildfires grow across the west as they become more intense more in dangerous, exacerbated of course by climate change, federal firefighters early vine their lives, their families, for months at a time, working on average six now are david lee shifts in some cases sleeping in the desert wit...

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Soldiers from the San Antonio-based U.S. Army North (Fifth Army) will provide support for relief efforts in California that are needed due to ongoing wildfires.

Resources stretched thin in the heat of wildfire season. nearly one-quarter of all wildfire response in the u.s., 6,000 people, tied to a single blaze >> we do have a shortage of critical positions, like division supervisors, like our dozer operators and even line medics. that's a critical gap and a concern in terms of just how stretched thin we are nationally >> reporter: exhaustion is setting in on the frontline. a firefight to save thousands of homes at risk fire chief, bob orange, even facing a close call at his own house. >> the house was just -- it was a vibrant, glowing red from all the...