H.R. 5560 · 117th Congress
Military Support for Fighting Wildfires Act
- Stage
- In committee
- Sponsor
- John Garamendi
- Introduced
- 2021-10-12
- Latest action
- 2021-10-22 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Summary
Military Support for Fighting Wildfires Act
This bill addresses the role of the Department of Defense (DOD) in wildfire emergency response, including by authorizing DOD to implement the FireGuard Program to aggregate, analyze, and assess multi-source remote sensing information for interagency partnerships in the detection and monitoring of wildfires.