People can also wait to claim Social Security until they are 70.

The urgency to reduce these fire hazards is now a year-round struggle for a group of workers known as pineros or men of the pines.Most of the forestry workers are like my dad look and work in conditions like my dad did.

And I honestly feel that working in the forestry industry took away at least 20 years of his life.many forestry crews have to shift roles.How do you get Latino workers on federal lands managing our forests? There were two amnesties that were passed in 1986 and 1996 for immigrant workers.

Were just trying to clear the ground litter.CBS News embedded with Grayback during a planned burn of the forest floor.

were raised in the pines and their father spent 25 years working in the forests.

He obtained his citizenship in the early 1980s and worked the forest for over 25 years.says veterinarian Aracelli Hammann.

And between the heat wave and the wind.The Pantanal sits at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest which was also devastated by unprecedented fires in 2019 stretching from Brazil into Bolivia and Paraguay across more than 65.

with normally flooded areas reduced to shriveled ponds.head of the environmental group SOS Pantanal.