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

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/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? 

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