r/Wildfire • u/smokejumperbro USFS • Feb 06 '25

News (General) Sens. Padilla, Sheehy propose new wildfire agency

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/sens-padilla-sheehy-propose-new-wildfire-agency

Here we go folks

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u/ZonaDesertRat Feb 06 '25

Cause FMOs and the type have never screwed anyone over??? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I've seen it far too often, folks you thought would never turn on "the brotherhood" do a 180 the min they get into management. While I despise them for doing it, I also know that it is how it is... Management is always, ALWAYS there to protect the agency, not the worker!

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u/smokejumperbro USFS Feb 06 '25

Feels like you're making a false equivalence. "Well these guys are bad too!"

Most FMOs are great and we can't get bad individuals out completely. But currently we have a bad SYSTEM. And that system needs to be changed.

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u/Darth_Ra Dirty COMT Feb 06 '25

I don't think that anyone disagrees with that, but trusting this administration to create a new agency with the well-being of federal workers and firefighters at its heart?

That's... a shot in the dark, to put it mildly.

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u/Roxxorsmash Feb 06 '25

It’s stupid is what it is