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CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell October 27, 2021 19:48:00

Plate, and realize that we are pushing our federal wild land firefighters to a breaking point: the wildfires in the west only going to grow more pervasive and intense as a by product of climate change, and as a result, i think we ve got to invest more in compensating our firefighters. they are woefully under compensated, as you know, earlier this year, the president made an executive order to raise the pay to $15 an hour. that was an important step but it was a first step. we ve introduced bipartisan legislation with republican representative liz cheney, and democratic representative katie porter out of california and wyoming respectively to raise firefighter pay to guarantee housing and to also, as you said, ensure the provision of health and mental health benefits, the suicide rate amongst federal wild land firefighters is alarmingly high. i believe that we have got to make these investments. we ve got to do them now, and make a bill on precisely that topic, and we hope to get that d ....

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