Draft national wildfire plan under white house consideration returns firefighting ‘to the 1930s,’ experts say

“They’re proposing we’re going to go toe-to-toe with these fires,” said Jerry Williams, retired Forest Service national director of fire and aviation. “So instead of more thinning and prescribed burning, we’re going to try to be suppression-centric. That’s going to go back to the 1930s ‘10 a.m. policy.’”