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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by Nifty3929 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:34PM (#42640241)
Unfortunately that 2% was the part going to actual firefighters. The other 98% was administrative overhead. Both remaining firefighters are spread thin.
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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by defrost on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @07:45PM (#42640317)
From the budget papers (page 11) themselves, $774 million went to salaries, $46 million to expenses.

https://cao.lacity.gov/budget/summary/2024-25%20Budget%20Sum...

Page 6 shows a water flow from revenues to expenditures.

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