Utah Sen. Mitt Romney sat down Friday morning with state representatives of a federal wildfire and mitigation commission he helped establish to learn of problems and recommendations on how to help ease the pain and breadth of wildfires in the West.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah received a briefing by Utah members of the federal Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission which he helped get passed as part of the Infrastructure and Jobs Act. The working group report on aviation needs to fight wildfires demonstrated the expense, workforce challenges, and other hurdles the West must confront if this year brings an active wildfire season.