re: Wildfires in Louisiana

Gotcha.

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eah there’s seems to be a misconception on what contained means

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I want "Contained" to really mean "Extinguished" but I know that no matter how much I want it to be so, it is not so. A Contained fire is a condition that means that there's still fire there in some spots.

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Start contacting your representatives and tell them to pass a damn permanent pay raise

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Why should the State foot the bill for local firefighters? How about the parishes and municipalities make their first responders a priority?

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How about the parishes and municipalities make their first responders a priority?

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Cause their ain't much of a tax base in a lot of those parishes and municipalities. Little industry, few people, and they all po'. They have the first responders they need for normal trouble but no surge capacity.

Entergy has a major feeder that goes across that basin. See the light green line.



Luckily the line is on medal poles.

This is the area where the parish wants to put a nature park and reservoir.

I just want my lights not to flicker on a nice day in Mulberry

Of course Entergy has transmission lines that were damaged. Par for the course. Time for rates to increase again!

And yes, slightly joking, but kind of not.

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This is how it is done.

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Of course, paying the few local folks more isn't a bad idea. Those aren't the people who are fighting the Tiger Island Fire, though. They're lending support and likely taking care of other, smaller fires that pop up, but there is a Federal Wildland firefighting team that numbers nearly a couple hundred (347 people on this fire total) leading the way and calling the shots in regards to plan and attack. There are also state forestry resources involved and some National Guard. Without that Federal response team this fire would have rolled all of those towns in the area.

Those are the people getting shafted by our elected officials who refuse to pass a pay raise, or even an extension of their current pay. Many of those people will see a ~30% cut in pay if nothing is done, and some will approach a 50% cut. Their numbers have already been on the decline since the Fed vaccine mandate resulted in many walking away. Some teams in some areas are now made up of 50% first year people, and the turnover rate was already shite to begin with.

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Start contacting your representatives and tell them to pass a damn permanent pay raise or quite a few of them are probably going to walk.

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You probably have noted reps. in Washington. I was thinking state. State has little to do with fire fighter pay. Fed. is different. I have never had the pleasure to deal with federal fire fighters.

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Cause their ain't much of a tax base in a lot of those parishes and municipalities. Little industry, few people, and they all po'. They have the first responders they need for normal trouble but no surge capacity.

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