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/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/OttoOtter Feb 09 '25

Lol. Funny story: I've had to go out to Florida and Georgia multiple times because apparently, the locals struggle with burning on flat coastal plains or flat pine plantations. The only people I've met there after multiple years of winter burning that are competent are from at least 2 time zones away.

Your comments about fire mitigation in the Sanata Monica mountains expose you as more ignorant than any western volly firefighter clad in the brightest of yellow shirts.

Also I'm not from California, but as is with the case with most fed guys, we travel all over the country and will see more fire in a few seasons than folks like you will in a lifetime.

You wouldn't make it 24 hours with a Cali hotshot crew. You wouldn't know what to make of all the fire and smoke and men and women actually working for more than 4 hours of the day.

And yeah. This is entirely on Trump. I just showed you an email that came from the Whitehouse encouraging firefighters, among others, to quit.

Just because you're a loud-mouthed arrogant gooner who thinks running 20 lift-assists a shift makes you God's gift to fire and EMS doesn't make it so.

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

So you are telling me that these fires were not preventable at all right? Nothing could have been done differently to change the out come? You speak broadly about all your experience but fail to talk about anything preventative. This falls on Gaven Newsome, the LA county Mayor and Fire Chief.

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u/Big-Style-5490 Feb 09 '25

All fires are preventable. Conditions that are prevalent play a hell of a cause. Were you there? Sustainable winds of 30+ mph drive fire like you can’t imagine. Now take a RESIDENTIAL neighborhood full of dry vegetation everywhere (that’s the state’s fault? Or the natural environment?). Add the terrain there. Also the winds were significantly higher, I was just stating the obvious. What kind of fire attack do you expect to keep that in check? And considering it’s about funding with you, what should it cost you tax dollar wise?

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u/Skunk_Ape- Feb 09 '25

It’s not about funding to me at all, it’s about fire management that you have control over, like clearing out dried out vegetation that is the actual fuel. Maybe also restore the natural flow of water through California so SoCal isn’t in a perpetual state of drought.

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u/LionTraditional9651 Feb 09 '25

My dude why are spending time debating a topic you clearly know nothing about.