Yep. Gots to make sure they get plenty of funding next year so don’t dare put it out early.
It’s not just money. It’s experience. A lot of the guys who fought all these fires over the years have retired. Hubby is one of them. He sits and watches the fires in our county on tv and says stuff like...I put that fire out 5 times. You draw a dozer line here, back fire there and go back to the station and have coffee. The new guys don’t know this stuff because they’ve never done it and almost 100% of the guys that have done it retired en masse so there’s no one with the experience to teach them.