Firefighters in LA hobbled by staffing woes, budget cutting: Union leader | Vargas Reports
January 17, 2025
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as posted by the channelFrank Lima, general secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Firefighters, says Los Angeles firefighters should have been predeployed before the wildfires broke out but adds a series of bad decisions made over the years contributed to last week's disaster: "We had more staffing in the 1960s than we do today, yet the population has doubled."
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