Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Feb 11, 2026
What it does
The bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to develop a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program within six months of enactment to support the next-of-kin of federal firefighters and wildland fire support personnel who are killed, critically injured, or suffer line-of-duty illness. The program would provide notifications, travel expense reimbursement, case management, counseling, benefits information, complaint mechanisms, interagency liaison, and data collection, while preserving existing line-of-duty death benefits. It defines next-of-kin in a priority order starting with surviving spouses, then adult children, parents, siblings, grandparents, and other relatives…
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