An update about today fire suppression activity and a good general overview of the fire so far.
I watched a 10 second clip of what they are dealing with on Bluesky.
How the absolute FUCK do you stop something like this?
You don’t. You pray the winds stop long enough to contain and finally put it out.
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Well you deploy all of your firefighting planes and helicopters. Then you grab anyone in uniform who is duty bound to follow orders and you hand them a shovel.
Which is exactly what’s happening.
Except the first night the winds in the Palisades were too strong and erratically gusty to fly anything, especially the kind of daredevil flying necessary to drop water into a fiery maelstrom, in the thick smoke and rugged terrain. So they were limited to a ground attack, which is why so many homes and acres burned. The fact so few people died is a testament to much of the work they did accomplish, saving lives rather than property.
Some of whom are convicts working for $5 a day…
Some of them are only in prison instead of home release because of that slave labor.
Not supporting enslavement of the incarcerated, but in California, you can’t be forced to fight fires as a prisoner, it’s a volunteer position.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html
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I heard that they can’t be hired as firefighters.
Seems they can since 2021: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/facility-locator/conservation-camps/fire_camp_expungement/
Good to know!
I wonder if the person who wrote the Lemmy comment I saw claiming it was simply not up-to-date on their information, or if they were making a point about expungement being less than automatic, or talking about a particular jurisdiction with different rules, or what.
Yeah - it’s pretty recent so it could be there was debate around the subject before the legislation was passed and so people became aware that “it was a problem” but then forgot/didn’t see that it was “fixed”.
I learned about the problem from a last week tonight video 5 years ago and just now learned it changed. I’m personally leaning toward just not up to date.
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I’ve heard that too but I think there is talk of creating a program to allow some ex convicts who have the experience to give them jobs, not sure if it’s just talk or if they already passed the legislation though.
Have they tried rakes? /s
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No, but Trump is about to start a federal anti-fire raking program and you’ll see!
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