RBC | “It’s like having gasoline out there,” said Brian Steinhardt, forest fire zone manager for Prescott and Coconino national forests in Arizona, in a recent AP story about the increasingly fire-prone West.
Now something else is happening — and at the worst possible time.
Section Chief John Kennedy surveys firing operations on Bair Ranch during the Grizzly Creek Fire in 2020 | LUCAS TURNER PHOTO
Federal firefighters are leaving the workforce and taking their…