Smoke

Every year we send teams from the west coast to the east coast and do prescribed burning in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas, and a lot in Florida. We need teams from the east coast to start coming out here to the west. There just isn't as many east coast wildland firefighters. We just need more people all around. Until (very) recently the agencies (USFS, BLM, Natl. Parks, and US Fish and Wildlife) have just told us to do more with less. People get fed up and leave so that leaves people with less experience to move up the ladder and we are starting to see some inexperience in top positions. Experience can be gained but sometimes there's some real head scratchin' with some decision making.