Trying to determine...

PurpleThrobber

https://twitter.com/scottadamssays/status/1296938541323128833?s=21

Is this really a bad thing?

MikeDamone

California can do what it wants. Including mismanage forests

Doogles

While the fires could not be predicted, the strain on firefighting resources was.
Cal Fire's union leadership began sounding the alarm about a depletion of resources in the spring, when the COVID outbreak triggered early releases from prisons and with that, a loss of hundreds of inmate firefighters who annually help set up defensive lines around wildfires. Inmate firefighters make up about 43% of Cal Fire's firefighting force.

Except from an LATimes article.

Edit: it's fair to say Newsome took out a 72 million dollar loan to replace the inmate labor. California indeed does what it wants.

hardhat

Will any of the brave antifa protestors be willing to help pitch in and fight the fires?

PurpleThrobber

hardhat said:

Will any of the brave antifa protestors be willing to help pitch in and fight the fires?

Antifa is way better at lighting fires than squelching them.

Pitchfork51

#raketheleaves

Fire_Marshall_Bill

This fire is Trump's fault

doogie

hardhat said:

Will any of the brave antifa protestors be willing to help pitch in and fight the fires?

That’s for someone else to do

USMChawk

They‘d better not divert any water from the estuaries to fight it. There’s some species of smelt (?) that depends on the salinity staying just so. Or so I’ve heard.