Ensuring Casualty Assistance for our Firefighters Act
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Summary
The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop, within 6 months of enactment, a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program for next-of-kin of wildland firefighters and wildland fire support personnel who are killed, critically injured, or suffer line-of-duty illness. The program would cover notifications, reimbursement of travel expenses to visit affected personnel, casualty assistance officer qualifications and training, case management, and a no-cost website providing benefit information. It would not alter existing Line of Duty Death benefits for federal firefighters and wildland fire support personnel.
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