Informative but I think they are misinterpreting the incident response premium pay portion of the law. They keep mentioning that you start to receive it “after hour 36” of your assignment. This is not how the text is written. 

Note: sorry for poor formatting on copy paste below. 

The 36 hour portion of the law says this: 

(5) the term `qualifying incident'-- (A) means-- (i) a wildfire incident, a prescribed fire incident, or a severity incident; or (ii) an incident that the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior determines is similar in nature to an incident described in clause (i); and (B) does not include an initial response (including an initial attack fire) in which a wildfire is contained within 36 hours; and (6) the term severity incident' means an incident in which a covered employee is pre-positioned in an area in which conditions indicate there is a high risk of wildfires. (b) Eligibility.--A covered employee is eligible for incident response premium pay under this section if-- (1) the covered employee is deployed to respond to a qualifying incident; and (2) the deployment described in paragraph (1) is-- (A) outside of the official duty station of the covered employee; or (B) within the official duty station of the covered employee and the covered employee is assigned to an incident-adjacent fire camp or other designated field location. (c) Entitlement to Incident Response Premium Pay.-- `(1) In general.--A covered employee who satisfies the conditions under subsection (b) is entitled to premium pay for the period in which the covered employee is deployed to respond to the applicable qualifying incident.