r/Firefighting • u/JohannLandier75 Tennessee FF (Career) • Feb 08 '25

News Federal Hiring Freeze prevents on-boarding of wildland firefighters

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/firefighters-federal-hiring-freeze/index.html
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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

Let it burn. Thats trumps moto. He’ll blame it on everyone but himself. Disgusting what we’re dealing with.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

Yeah just like the incompetent LA Fire Chief who is only in that position because of sexual identity politics. 

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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

Yup, that’s why everything burned the way it did. Had nothing to do with funding/staffing the fire department properly. Requires federal funding in an area of that magnitude. A lot of federal funding. I mean that’s if you want to properly staff a fire department that can quickly get a fire under control vs. waiting for mutual aid from everywhere to stop a disaster. You pay for (I mean you vote for) what you get. Those on the front lines are left to figure out and respond with the resources they have available.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

Hey do you forget this is all about forestry management, or lack of? Lack of water supply that was purposely shut off by the dip shit state government. This is not a federal issue, this is a California state government issue. Cali burned with Joe Biden in office and he didn’t do dick for them, or Hawaii.

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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

Can’t change what’s already taken place as far as disaster. What matters now and in the future is funding and staffing. No one is doing forestry management so don’t pretend it’s backed by either political party you dope. The water supply would have been completely inundated no matter where the fire took place. I mean, if you really know what you’re talking about…

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

These fire should have never happened, and you are a moron if you think proper forest management doesn’t take place in other states. These fires happen from incompetent at the state level and even county level. Take accountability, that’s what the fire service is built on. Are you even a FF? Half of this sub Reddit isn’t and that’s clear as day, nothing but a bunch of trump hating trolls

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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

captain urban area.