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To save some people a search: CDF = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as "CALFIRE" CDCR = California Department of Corrections
by samcheng 6y ago
To save some people a search:
CDF = California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as "CALFIRE"
CDCR = California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which in this context supplies convict labor to fight fires.
One issue this year is that the California State Prisons are all horrifically overrun with COVID-19, thereby incapacitating what had previously been a critical firefighting function.
The situation (mass incarceration, crowded conditions, negligent and/or derisive healthcare for inmates, climate change, lack of prescribed burns, and now inadequate resources to fight large fires) is really quite depressing to untangle.
- mschuster91 6y agoIdeally, the state should not require (it is what it is) slave labor to fulfill basic needs of society. Yes I know in theory it is voluntary and everything, but it is wage dumping using forced labor - because without said slave labor the state would have to pay a lot more for a real standing force. As with most cost cutting measures, eventually the chickens will come home to roost, and there has been quite a horde of chickens that came home over the last months, across the world.
- me_againnnnnn 6y agoFor example,90+% of the deaths from covid 19 in Sonoma county are from crowded, underfunded nursing homes. A problem that has been completely ignored for so many years. All the rules they made to fight the problem and none of them are actually changing the original problem.