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The US is woefully underprepared for wildfire season, say insiders: ‘The stakes are life and death’ (www.theguardian.com)

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“If this turns out to be a major fire year, it’s going to be a shit show,” said Dr Hugh Safford, a fire ecologist at the University of California, Davis, who spent more than two decades working for the US Forest Service (USFS) before retiring in 2021.

Suely they've been busy raking the forest ?

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[–] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Our local ranger station has the senior former wildfire people working now at the front desk just speaking to visitors. (The front desk people were eliminated and they just started moving staff around.) But obviously the normal experts are no longer doing any wildfire planning and response work.

At it happens, it's painfully obvious they also can't answer visitor's questions and don't know the processes to take payments, issue permits and all the things in the front desk job.

So not looking good.