On Tuesday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) announced that, due to COVID-19 prison releases, the number of inmate wildfire fighters has left the state at least 600 wildfire fighters short of where they have been at in previous years.
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-Elmo
Maybe they could round a few of the released prisoners up. Surely they weren't released to just roam free. Right? Surely they're wearing ankle charms. Right? So gathering a few up should be simple. Right? /s
ReplyDeleteServes the fuckers right. When I worked CDF Helitack in Beiber in 1982-83, we used to train prisoners to board the helicopter at Susanville prison. Nicest bunch of humans. Not.
ReplyDeleteThat may be true, but they're hard workers and get a miserable job done.
DeleteThe fact that California has less than half of the experienced hand crews it did at the start of the year is one of the main reason containment percentages on these big fires is coming down so slowly.
CDF really should figure out a way to get these men into permanent positions on hand crews, since the regular civilian population is so busy riding skateboards, smoking pot and busting windows.
Stop being idiots, and do some fire prevention.
DeleteFire breaks, and clean up places in danger of fires like they used to do before the commie hippies took over there.
My property borders a juvenile offender firefighting camp. Gov. Newsome wants to close it down. I guess he needs the money to pay for illegal alien healthcare. Californians are second-class citizens in their home state.
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