If Wildland Firefighters Are "Essential", Why Do They Make $15/Hour? "Exodus" Underway

[Traildogbob]

3. Thank you so much

For bringing this to light. My entire career as College faculty, was teaching and training students to become County, State and Federal Rangers, with 90 percent of them on Wildland Fire crews.
Many came to our school and other colleges that taught Forest Management because of a love and desire to be fire fighters. We have lost alum to fires.
But they are brave hero’s that know that is possibility.
Yet they still come with eagerness to do the job.
This needs to be known by the public that depend on their homes being saved and our resources protected.
NEVER in my career has the dangers been higher for these exception people, willing to die for the love of the job they do, for barely hamburger flipping salaries.
And the future looks to be even more dangerous.
PAY these hero’s. If the Boebert’s and MTG’s can make $200,000 for nothing, pay these brave people what they deserve. And many of them have college tuition debt.