In a video conference with Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other Western governors, President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged to devote more federal resources to combat wildfires, which have proliferated in recent years on the West’s landscapes parched by long-term drought.
The president vowed to expand the firefighting workforce, providing better pay and bonuses to recruit and retain skilled personnel, to bring more helicopters and air tankers into the nation’s firefighting fleet and to harness satellite technology for early detection of wildfires...