National Park Service, Forest Service and Fish & Wildlife staff training in Oakhurst this week
OAKHURST, Calif. (KFSN) — Folks from the National Parks Service, National Forest Service and Fish & Wildlife are gathered in the foothills of the Sierra this week. Nearly two dozen people from across the country have gathered in a classroom at Yosemite Adult School in Oakhurst. Nancy Phillipe with Yosemite National Park is one of the instructors teaching the group. “We have students from Olympic National Park here, a student from Theodore Roosevelt which is in North Dakota,” Phillipe said. They’re each here to learn the best ways to get information out to the public in emergency situations such as wild land fires. They will be the individuals who will post on social media and talk to the local news outlets about the fire fight, evacuations and any other necessary information they need to get out to the impacted communities. “These are the folks that you see in the field that are in the know of what’s happening with the incident,” Phillipe said. Hannah Bradburn is taking part in the class. She’s the visual information specialist at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan. “I’ve never