NPS to add 5 fire people in 2021

https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/fy2021-budget-justification-nps.pdf

what a joke - huge fires across the usa and the best the NPS can do is
to hire 5 extra people

Mitigating Fire Risk to NPS Infrastructure (+$3,000,000 / +5 FTE) –
The budget proposes to increase NPS capacity to reduce the threats to
NPS assets and infrastructure from wildland fire. Funding will support
projects to create defensible space in areas around park buildings
through treatment, clearance, and/or reduction of vegetation, debris,
and other types of combustible fuels around NPS assets to slow the
spread of wildland fire to and from the infrastructure. The actions
will reduce wildland fire risk, thereby increasing the safety of
firefighters and the public and minimizing the impacts to park
operations, visitor experiences, and gateway communities. These
activities will be coordinated with fuel treatment projects funded
through the Office of Wildland Fire.

The NPS' Wildland Fire Risk assessment is currently used to
characterize a structure's risk of ignition during a wildland fire and
to estimate the amount of effort required to defend a structure or
group of structures from a wildland fire. To date, over 90 percent of
the 31,028 structures in the NPS Wildland Fire Geodatabase have been
surveyed for wildfire risk and are recommended for some type of work
to mitigate fire risk. Examples of parks with highest priority needs
includes Great Smoky Mountains NP (98 structures), Crater Lake NP (91
structures), Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP (66 structures), and Yellowstone
NP (40 structures).

(looks like they are adding 1 person to each of these parks - which
might sound piddly - but its probably a doubling of their fire
planners)