The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are highlighting the Trump administration’s new federal fire service and its revived, discredited policy of rapid wildfire suppression.
One of the fallen firefighters worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, formed this year without congressional approval, drawing staff from four Interior Department agencies. The victims, an elite helicopter crew, became trapped Saturday in a fast-growing wildfire near the Utah border while attacking the blaze.
