{"podcast":{"title":"Life with Fire","slug":"life-with-fire-744999","podcast_index_feed_id":744999,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/wMFLKTDa","website_url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ff872a5e-c247-4d9d-99c7-e18642da1e7b/3786cd9b-ae22-4df0-ae12-1a051e116736/3000x3000/7dad79de-ff28-4fdb-acb5-4575c0b10a83.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Amanda Monthei","episode_count":80,"summary":"What are the benefits of prescribed burning? Why have wildfires gotten so severe lately? How can I help protect my home and community? Life With Fire podcast aims to answer these questions (and many others) while deepening our understanding of the critical role fire plays in America’s forests, lands and communities. Hosted by writer and former wildland firefighter Amanda Monthei, Life with Fire features interviews with everyone from scientists to fire management experts to Indigenous practitioners and folks doing the work on the ground. Through these interviews, Amanda hopes to explore our relationship with fire, as well as ways we can better coexist with it in the future.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999"},"episode":{"title":"How the Loss of Federal Workers Will Have A Massive Impact on Fire Operations This Fire Season, With Riva Duncan","slug":"how-the-loss-of-federal-workers-will-have-a-massive-impact-on-fire-operations-this-fire-season-with-riva-duncan","published_at":"2025-02-16T17:31:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/how-the-loss-of-federal-workers-will-have-a-massive-impact-on-fire-operations-this-fire-season-with-riva-duncan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999","url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com/episodes/loss-of-federal-workers-will-have-massive-impact-on-fire-operations-this-fire-season-with-riva-duncan-NuUWunCS","audio_url":"https://chrt.fm/track/3G5CD6/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e64b7a70-510f-4a3b-8b79-94ad9ae877d7/episodes/c30e9eff-9495-46a7-9491-b500daede7f2/audio/13f8c011-cffb-4fd1-84f1-fc9dfb9a54ee/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=wMFLKTDa","summary":"There's been a lot of postulating about whether the firing of some 4400 (and counting) Forest Service and National Park employees on Friday will have an impact on fire operations this summer. We spoke with Riva Duncan, who has decades of experience in fire operations for the US Forest Service (before retiring with the agency), and her answer couldn't be more clear: yes, these losses in capacity are *already* having an impact on our ability to suppress wildfires this summer.","meta_description":"There's been a lot of postulating about whether the firing of some 4400 (and counting) Forest Service and National Park employees on Friday will have an i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1083,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-with-fire-744999/episodes/how-the-loss-of-federal-workers-will-have-a-massive-impact-on-fire-operations-this-fire-season-with-riva-duncan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/how-the-loss-of-federal-workers-will-have-a-massive-impact-on-fire-operations-this-fire-season-with-riva-duncan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}