new video loaded: Why Wildfire Fighters Are Getting Dangerously Sick
By Hannah Dreier, Christina Thornell, Gabriel Blanco, Nikolay Nikolov, Coleman Lowndes, June Kim and Lauren McCarthy•August 17, 2025
The U.S. Forest Service has been sending out crews to fight fires without the recommended masks for decades. Hannah Dreier, a New York Times investigative reporter, reveals the dangerous and sometimes deadly repercussions of sending firefighters into the field unprotected.
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