Hazard duty pay is an additional 25 percent of base pay and is paid while working on uncontrolled fires. It is nestled at an elevation of 550 feet among the foothills leading to the the Cascade Range and Trinity Alps. Redding is ideally located for water sports of all kinds on two nearby lakes. Many other recreational opportunities exist, including bicycling, hiking, rock climbing, camping, fishing, hunting, downhill and cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling. Redding is also home to Shasta College, a two-year community college.
Rental housing is plentiful in the Redding area and is reasonably priced.
In addition, the Service Center houses the Northern Operations Coordination Center, Fire Cache, Training Center, Redding Interagency Hotshot Crew, Air Unit, Retardant Base, Fire Weather Unit, and various California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection functions. Qualifications Individuals interested in becoming smokejumper candidates must meet the requirements listed below. For GS-5, one year of experience that provided the applicant with skill in the use of hand tools, familiarity with safe work procedures and practices related to forestry or other fields such as range management, farming, ranching, fire control work, soil and water conservation activities, and knowledge of basic first aid procedures. Wildland fire suppression experience is work as a member of an organized fire suppression crew or comparable unit, in forest and range fire suppression work under mountainous terrain and field conditions such as those found in the Western United States. This work must have included training in forest or range fire suppression methods and techniques, and in safety and first aid practices common to firefighting work.