DOI Office of Wildland Fire — Funding for Slip-on Wildfire Tanker Units
The Department of the Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire is providing Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to help local governments acquire slip-on tanker units to support wildland firefighting. The program addresses increasing, year-round wildfire activity driven by drought and higher temperatures. Funds aim to boost local firefighting capacity and community resilience.
Wildfire activity is increasing. Drought and prolonged, increased temperatures are creating conditions that allow wildfires to start earlier in the year, enable them to last longer, and make them more difficult to control. Increasingly intense wildfires and prolonged droughts then lead to an inf…
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Eligibility is restricted to U.S. local governments that provide fire protection and other emergency services and are in need of slip-on tankers to improve the wildland firefighting readiness for their area of protection and service a location with a population of 50,000 or less. Additional det…
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