Raises pay, adds a new incident‑response premium, and creates paid rest-and‑recuperation leave for federal wildland firefighters who work for the Forest Service or the Department of the Interior. It replaces temporary pay boosts with permanent special base pay rates by grade that count as basic pay for benefits and retirement.

When firefighters are deployed to qualifying incidents, they receive a daily premium tied to their hourly basic pay, with safeguards so the premium doesn’t inflate other pay calculations. The bill also sets uniform limits on deployment and work hours and guarantees paid R&R time to reduce burnout, with rules that also cover intermittent firefighters.