Trump aims to consolidate federal firefighters into one agency

“The major danger of this proposal is that it will sever fire management from land management,” said Ingalsbee, who’s also the executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology, a nonprofit based in Eugene. “We’re just going to be locked into that reactive mode of emergency firefighting — divorced from any pre-fire mitigation, post-fire recovery or rehabilitation and community fire preparedness.”