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/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?