On September 30th of this year federal Wildland Firefighters will take a drastic pay cut if Congress doesn't take action to pass legislation avoiding the firefighter fiscal cliff.
At the end of this fiscal year temporary funding intended to retain Wildland Firefighters will run out forcing firefighters and their families to make a difficult decision to stay in the job they love with drastically less pay or leave to find higher paying work to sustain their households.
The Forest Service itself has testified before Congress that without a permanent pay solution 30-50% of firefighters will leave the job, making it unsafe for the remaining few and leaving fires unstaffed.
Congress must act to pass a permanent pay solution, however to date there is no certainty that this will happen.
Sign this petition to make sure they know what's at stake. We will give the signed petition to each member of Congress and urge them to avoid the #Firefighter Fiscal Cliff.
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