Amid a record breaking wildfire season, NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda joins the U.S. Forest Service hotshot teams on the front lines. The highly trained, elite group is an essential part of the fight, but the group has been struggling with low pay and staffing shortages.
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This man and women are highly trained highly motivated They are the special forces of firefighter and they pay them like crap I was out there sitting on an engine making twice as much as those guys That’s sad it’s not right
Thats exactly why i dropped out of college and became a truck driver instead.
You need to report that fire fighters are under paid, living in their trucks, and leaving the job. Paying them more or loose your house seems like a common sense thing. PAY THEM MORE.
Nah bruh. The govt wont allow that. Lol. Look at how many veterans are outside living in the streets. Pay was the main reason why i dropped out of college and instead became a truck driver. I was studying to become a paramedic and my ultimate goal was to be in the fire department after i joined their cadet program.
Once i was in the ambulance doing ride alongs, i felt the pressure. It was hectic! Once i found out the pay, it was an insult to me and all those who were in the field already
Im sorry sick people but i would prefer to make 2k a week just driving a semi, than getting paid 16/hr for saving peoples lives.
I am grateful for these firefighters. They need to get paid way more!!!! I can’t imagine what it’s like to do that kind of work and breathe in all of that smoke
Global warming causes arson…
I have worked with a hotshot crew from the community St. Michaels, Alaska. What a great job for young men and women. There should be a civil service fire fighting organization that pays good and gives young people a great start in life. So many join the military for opportunity and training. Young people should have other options.
It is not a great job at all! F it if youre the baddest, a persons status depends on salaray. And let me say, these firefighters and paramedics are just as underpaid as the military. In the end, you could do so much for everyone just to end up on the streets.
Shoutout to NBC for not mentioning the motive for the Christmas parade massacre!
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Self interest is for the past; common interest is for the future. D.Attenborough
US: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive. D.Trump
Native: Your kids can name more KPop groups than types of trees. S.Sherman
COP26 is blah blah blah while the US and Manchin back their oil and coal company self interest dividends over climate change.
your wrong with your information, Us wildland fire fighters are trained to do any fire fighting near or away from our engines. Hotshot crews are not much more then ground pounders. The pay varies from location. California was not fully staffed because they waiting to long for put hiring out in usjobs/ Every other state filled in the seasonal positions, Wildland fire crews all take the same training S130, S190, saw class Some of us took other training such arson investigation, squad boss, engine academy etc, Like I said hot shot crews are no different then engine crews. We are all went to the same training. We all walk in the woods or forest to put fires out.
Your logic is almost on point but your wording is wrong.
Engine crews and hotshot crews are not the same. Sure, basic prerequisites and training would make you think that, but you have to take into account the cumulative fatigue taken on crews vs engines. It’s not always so black and white but if you truly know, you would not call them the same. I’ve done both, they are not the same.
To compare California with the rest of the US or FS you need to consider cost of living, frequency of assignment, lack of necessary resources, longer seasons, and competitive fields across the board. Fire hire is a crapshoot, we can agree on that. But that isn’t the sole reason why positions remained and continue to be unfilled.
It’s not about right vs wrong, but at best we need the collective public perception of wildland to be that regardless of satus/rank/agency, the overall image remains the same. We are all one.
I can’t wait to be along side them on the lines
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