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/OttoOtter Feb 09 '25

Looks like you live in South Florida. Not sure why anyone would listen to your opinion about fire in California.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

Well for well for one, we actually have proper forestry management and controlled burns in our state, second of all you can’t smell your own shit on your knees. I understand your allegiance for California, I assume you are a native but it’s okay to admit your state is run like dog shit, stop blaming Trump for all your problems, he’s been in office for 3 weeks. Dip shit Biden did nothing for you these last 4 years.

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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

Did more for the fire service than any president has in your lifetime. Wait and see if you don’t believe me.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

I needed that laugh.

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u/HokieFireman Fire, EM Feb 09 '25

Hey tell us more how cutting grants, funding, pay, now entire agencies that work with USAR teams and EM and firefighters especially wildland is a good thing?

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

Why isn’t State government in California taking control of their forestry properly?

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u/HokieFireman Fire, EM Feb 09 '25

48% of all land in California is federal land first so when your orange god cut federal fire budgets guess what he cut. As for California doing land management. Cal Fire has an entire app you can track where they do live burns, land and brush clearing, defensible space operations. Weird you don’t ask these questions of Texas which just has the largest lower 48 WUI fire ever in modern history last year.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

So go ahead and talk about Texas. Preventable? Poor management? The corpse was in the WH last year, what did he do about it since this is a Fed issue?

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u/HokieFireman Fire, EM Feb 09 '25

Increased pay of federal firefighters, increased pay of wildland techs, added tens of millions in grants and loans to local state governments to prepare and prevent wildland fires. Proposed hundreds of millions in spending over 25 years from a commission from a set of recommendations for long term fire prevention.

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u/SanJOahu84 Feb 11 '25

Where did the other guy go?