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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Don't they have paid firefighters for the rich and volunteers for everyone else? I think I remember hearing about Oprah's property being protected first when Hawaii was burning last. I would expect something similar in California. Money talks.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's not volunteers actually, it's prisoners being used as forced labor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/la-wildfires-incarcerated-firefighters

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

IIRC i read somewhere that these prison people volunteered, actually.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Most of firefighters in California, at least those fighting wildfires, are prison inmates, which is constitutionally slave labour.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That is all true, but I think OP is talking about news channels monetizing wildfire

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