DE Forest Service Looking for Wildfire Trainees

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The Delaware Forest Service is looking for new recruits to increase its wildfire crews for the upcoming season. Interested recruits should be over 18 years old, physically fit, motivated, and willing to travel out-of-state for at least two weeks during the summer on fire assignments. No previous experience is needed, but recruits are required to…

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UPDATED: 2nd DE Wildland Fire Crew Battling Copper Mountain Fire

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UPDATED – 8-13-18 – Twenty wildland firefighters from Delaware are part of 137 personnel battling the聽Copper Mountain Fire, a 180-acre blaze located four miles east of Eastport, Idaho on the Canadian border.聽 Michael A. Valenti of Dover, Delaware鈥檚 state forester and crew boss, reports that 鈥渇irefighters are working in rough terrain and completing very long…

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