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The money lets Kansas train more than 1,500 firefighters per year across the state and helps get trucks, generators and hand-tools for rural fire departments. Most of the Kansas Forest Service’s budget for this fiscal year might simply not show up. That’s the fear — with just 2.5 months left in the federal fiscal year — as the Trump administration continues to withhold federal money that states and tribal governments use for forestry and for preventing and combating wildfires. “One of the main things we do with this funding is provide training, response resources, response assistance” for wildfires, State Forester Jason Hartman said. …Rural departments are the vital, frontline responders when it comes to the kind of fires that the Kansas Forest Service focuses on preventing and combating — wildfires that sweep across the state’s prairies and woodlands. …Kansas sees about 4,000 wildfires each year.