President Donald Trump has told government agencies to consolidate their wildland firefighting into a single program.

The U.S. is struggling to replant forests destroyed by increasingly destructive wildfires, with some areas unlikely to recover.

Deputies were assisting with the evacuation of homes Thursday evening along Southwest Packard Street in Columbia County due to a brush fire, the Sheriff’s Office said.

U.S. officials are testing a new wildfire retardant after two decades of buying millions of gallons annually from one supplier, but watchdogs say the expensive strategy is overly fixated on aerial attacks at the expense of hiring more fire-line digging ground crews.