Bigtime pay, triple overtime, per diem meals (three hots!), hotel rooms, equipment maintenance they just don't get in NV, hot showers, buffet lines, all that and more with California paying through the nose for every last penny to stop a wildfire where it would make far more economic and ecologic sense to allow it to just burn itself out.
Nevada fire fighters just LOOOOOVE them some Calfornia fires. California spends billions. BEEEEEEELIONS. Wish California burned all year long!
"Awww yeah! California on FIRE! Gonna buy me a brand new shiny red Ford Super Duty F350 Lariat King Ranch with the Powerstroke Diesel!" they're all saying. You better believe.
As some one who has five different fires to the north and south of my house, I find your comment sickening.
I’m more or less living right in the middle of the 6 current fires burning and there are several hundred thousand people in this region and we can use all the help we can get.
If you were by that comment simply parroting what you believe Nevada firefighters are saying, then you should say so plainly and apologize for your thoughtless writing.
Otherwise, if those are indeed your personal sentiments, then there are plenty of people on FR right now who await either your abject apology or your permanent departure from FR.
That was disgusting. Of course firefighters get paid. And they even get three meals (sometimes). Do doctors dance a jig every time there’s a car wreck, or someone has a heart attack?
Yes, firefighters get paid. But they also die, just trying to save a few houses. That kind of cynicism is the reason that many people turn against conservatives. Out of all the ways to see this story, you see it as a government spending story.
SO do you suggest they should do it for free, should they just let Cali burn? Or do you suggest it would be cheaper for Cali to maintain a giant firefighting capability instead of turning to surrounding areas to contract work at peak demand?
Weird
Thanks a lot KG9. I was a Chilao Hotshot many many years ago and I saw how you Nevada firefighters DID NOT fight fire.
So good luck with that truck, you GOUL.
Idiot!