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

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 days ago

    Maybe we can talk about how the California government, including Newsom, have explicitly allowed PG&E to pass along the fines for their responsibility in the fires and being convicted of manslaughter to customers. And how this has made the penalties for their criminal negligence meaningless.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      it’s almost like they should, I dunno, make a regulation or something that says power lines must be underground or something.