Now I guess they can relate to our soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, and coast guardsmen in Iraq and Afghanistan in 120 degree weather except they aren’t dodging bullets, ieds, or mortor rounds.
One of the things you have to remember whenever hearing about California wildfires is that the state of California generally refuses Federal assistance in the form of USPS/USFS/BLM wildfire fighting assets (tankers, crews, smokejumpers, logistical help, etc.) until the situation is way out of hand.
How many brigades of Sierra Club supporters are out there with shovels battling the fires? They’re probably all in Sacramento stuffing bribes in the pockets of California’s law breakers to ban cutting manzanita bushes and make the state safe for man-eating mountain lions.