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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by segasaturn on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:08PM (#42639531)
The city of Los Angeles and the Mayor have been requesting volunteers from the public, due to lack of manpower. According to their website [1] the salary for firefighters in Los Angeles is $85,000 to $125,000 (rounded). Assuming the average ($105,000), that amount of funding could have paid 161 firefighters salaries for the entire year, not including benefits (unsure how that is priced in), and much more than that if they were part-time which most of the force are.

https://www.joinlafd.org/salary-and-benefits

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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by kristjansson on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:47PM (#42639898)
> The city of Los Angeles and the Mayor have been requesting volunteers from the public

That's not true. The call last night was for all off-duty firefighters to report their availability, not for members of the public.

Clearly LAFD / LACFD need more manpower, but there's more then enough merit to make that case without misinformation.

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