[ExTxMarine]

In a normal year, that’s enough.
This year is not normal. You just have no idea how bad it is.
That is why this post is just BS! The inferrence that these budget cuts caused or exaserbated these wilfdires is NOT "vetting," it is throwing crap against a wall and hoping someone will call it ART!

That’s where state and federal grant money comes in, generally for specific expenses.
I agree, but when the money isn't there, it is NOT there. Currently, we do not have "extra" money, so we (the entire state) have to "make do" with the money available. That may mean, less training and more equipment purchases this year. Or, it may mean better maintenance on existing equipment. Or it might even mean more training on specific equipment or specific fire fighting techniques.

Just saying there were cuts and then leaving it like that caused or exaserbated these incidents is, well, incendiary! And it caused many Freepers to scrape the crap off the wall and toss it back at the poster!

[Jedidah]

I know we’re all worried, and tempers are easily stirred, but please settle down.

I was just replying, politely I thought, to an out-of-stater who might not understand the way our VFDs operate.

We’re all doing all we can, including the state.

Bad times, in so many ways.

Pray for named rain.