{"id":45132,"date":"2024-05-30T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=45132"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:37:24","slug":"the-challenges-wildland-firefighters-face-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/the-challenges-wildland-firefighters-face-in-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenges Wildland Firefighters Face in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"pbs-viral-player-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; padding-top: calc(56.25% + 43px);\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/3091841580\/\" allowfullscreen allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.31.24 <\/strong>\u2013<strong> <\/strong>Our Land\u2019s Laura Paskus speaks with Michelle Hart, the widow of smokejumper Tim Hart, about the challenges wildland firefighters and their families face.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correspondent: <\/strong>Laura Paskus&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong>&nbsp;Michelle Hart&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For More Information:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/3\/8\/38788df1-c564-434e-80ea-e4e856347d5b\/57D9DADE3ACBCBE890EB0F0C34D01DA0.tim-s-act-summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act<\/em><\/a><em><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.31.24 \u2013 Our Land\u2019s Laura Paskus speaks with Michelle Hart, the widow of smokejumper Tim Hart, about the challenges wildland firefighters and their families face.&nbsp; Correspondent: Laura Paskus&nbsp; Guest:&nbsp;Michelle Hart&nbsp; For More Information:&nbsp; Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1257,5245],"tags":[4685,10494,10496,10495,9016],"class_list":["post-45132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-land","category-nmif-segments","tag-hidalgo-county","tag-michelle-hart","tag-smokejumpers","tag-tim-hart","tag-wildland-firefighters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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