Very true. This is not new.
Inmate crews have been fighting wildfires as long as I remember. They were on all the lines when I worked for CDF back in the day. For every day on the line they got one day off their time. Nearly all were on their best behavior. They got all the food they could eat and got to sleep outside. Any inmate that got in trouble took the entire crew off the line and back to prison. I would think that guy was dealt with harshly. Women crews worked the kitchen and camp facility cleaning.
California prefers dykes and criminals for firefighters while firing and refusing to hire white men.
Personally I don’t they get paid enough.
Y’all know they could just sit on their arses
and get three hots and a cot for doing nothing,
after all they are convicts.
That is hazardous and hard work.
Be a little more fair, it may be worth
the money.
they were clearing brush up around Mulholland yesterday in LAFD effort to keep Palisades fire from entering the San ernando Valley. i thank them for doing this back-breaking work to help firefighters. i live in the SFV - ahd pray it does the trick as winds kick up now for next few days.
If California really wanted a large headcount to fight the fires, they need to impress all illegal aliens and cross-dressers in the state.
Better than having them sit on their butts. I doubt that they’re picking the real crazies out of the prison population, but it’s California so you never know.
Better than having them sit on their butts. I doubt that they’re picking the real crazies out of the prison population, but it’s California so you never know.
They can guard against looters...
LOL.. 😁
When I was a California forestry department fire fighter, summer into fall after high school, on the largest fires we worked on there were supervised crews of prison innmates also working on those fires.
When my dad was still in the Air Force, there were fires in the San Bernardino Mountains where the guys at Norton and March Air bases were pulled in to supplement the regular fire crews. My dad, even though an officer, was one of them.