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I'm hearing that the USFS has laid off huge numbers of firefighters, including veterans, and won't be allowed to hire their usual seasonal firefighting force this year.

Edit: ProPublica now has a detailed article

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only the Left Coast burns, so this administration is fine with that.

[–] spidermanchild 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They won’t care until it’s them burning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if anyone cares about or respects anyone else anymore, even in the same neighborhood. We're also raising a generation of future adults in this stew of hatreds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Americans are crabs on a bucket. Of all the westernized countries I think they have one of the worst senses of civic, and social, duty and responsibility.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard 2 points 1 week ago

Nah, Florida does too. But at one point in time they were good about prescribed burns. Nothing stinks quite like a swamp fire.