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These workers hold other full-time jobs in the agency, but they’ve been trained to aid firefighting crews, such as by providing logistical support during blazes.

Others with knowledge of the terminations, including a representative of a federal union and a Senate staffer, said the original number of terminated employees was 3,400 but that decreased, likely as workers were brought back in divisions such as timber sales.

Hydrogen is a promising source of energy that produces water vapor instead of carbon dioxide as its byproduct, which proponents say could be used to power hard-to-decarbonize industries such as steel production, manufacturing and transportation.

The tax credit would cover up to half of the costs for qualified home upgrades, including for things such as new fire-resistant roofs, in states such as California and Montana, where the federal government has declared disasters in recent years, Schiff said.

Insurance policies have become increasingly expensive and difficult to secure across California and in other states as the insurance industry has reassessed the growing threat and potential cost of major climate-driven disasters, such as the wildfires that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles region this year.