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We Aren't Helpless in the Face of Increasing Fires and Smoke
Seasonal hiring, when combined with low pay and other career challenges, means both countries end up short on the firefighters needed every year. Last year, the U.S. Forest Service started the summer lacking 1,300 firefighters. Things aren't much better on the northern side of the border—staffing shortages in Ontario left the province 50 crews short before the fires there began.
by Jay Balagna
https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/06/we-arent-helpless-in-the-face-of-increasing-fires-and.html
@corlin
Our twit of a premier cancelled the rapid response fire fighting team last year. She said they would be more nimble in fighting fires.
Her brain thinks hiring outside of the province investigators will find people who start fires.
Good luck finding that match in the middle of a forest fire that started it.