The Federal Higher Freez of the Los Angeles-Trump administration has stopped boarding thousands of seasonal federal firefighters, in which agencies also demanded to help fight the catastrophic fire in Los Angeles. , Which has led to a potential shortage of firefighters before the next fire. Season
Although President Donald Trump’s January 20 Executive Order says it does not apply to frozen “public safety” positions, but federal firefighters are not exempt, according to a person who hired in the Bureau of Land Management. Works in doing
More than 15,000 carriers and temporary seasonal firefighters work in US forest service, Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service that perform fuel management, fire in Wildland and National Event Management System As part of the emergency, other jurisdictions help.
At least one field office for the Bureau of Land Management, a division of the Department of Interior, an annual job official was instructed in an email reviewed by NBC News that he was frozen. “Stop all offers related to fire positions”.
Agency “was already in the middle of hiring their summer services [fire] The manpower when the federal hiring freez came down, “a federal rent manager in Utah told the NBC affiliates. KSL in Salt Lake City.
“There is a rage of stupidity and negligence,” said another BLM official in the job.
“What if there is no manifest? How many people were killed in their hands with the garden hoses? The man said.
Having federal background checks is a long process to hire federal firefighters, and some delay in this process raises concerns about an unusual force of firefighting, especially Los Angeles After the Eaton and the Palacedes Fire in the County, which killed at least 29 people and destroyed or damaged more than 18,000 structures, which eliminated the entire palaces.
“Federal firefighters are the backbone of public safety protection and fire in the state California,” Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for Government Gwen Newsom, said Thursday. “Any lack of services pose a threat to federal forests and California citizens.”
Newsom told NBC News last month that the fire in the disaster would be the most expensive in the US history.
NBC News observed that US forest service firefighters set fire to Palacedas, and they also fought the Eaton fire in the Angels National Forest, where they made five major air tankers, 10 firefighting helicopters and dozens of dozens. Deployed fire engines. Official ExecutiveWhich covers federal business news.
According to the video obtained, federal staff is supported by neighborhood savings in Eaton Fire Los Angeles’s KTLA TV.
The largest forest service in the Federal Firefighting Agencies is across the department, which hires frozen services. January 21 Memo From Gary Washington, the acting secretary of the Agriculture Department, who oversees the agency.
He wrote, “At present, there is no exception to hiring in the department.” – People who have been offered jobs, but have not received acceptance, will be contacted immediately and said that the offer has been canceled.
Steve Guterres, a member of the National Federation of Federal Employees, confirmed that the offerings have been canceled and said that when there is a lack of federal firefighters, other attempts to thin federal manpower would have been more complicated by renting. Is
Hot shot staff and 15 -year -old veteran, with forestry service, said thousands of probationary status firefighters are at risk of eliminating.
“I was hoping that it would be exempt or exempt,” Gutters said.
In 2017, Federal Hiring Freez declared firefighters exempt.
The Interior Department said in a statement Thursday that it was implementing President Donald J. Trump Executive Order Federal civilian manpower.
The forest service said in a statement that it was “actively working with OPM in Wildland Firefighting positions,” referring to the White House Office of Personal Management.
The National Park Service, the White House and the Boys, the National Intelligence Fire Center in Adho, which integrates federal firefighters efforts, did not respond to the requests for comment.
Sergio Gore, director of the White House’s White House, said Fox NewsEspecially referring to frozen but not frozen, but referring to frozen, “Frozen from place to place enables us to test new people and other positions, but you clean the house. Look, this is one of these things.
In addition to the rental frozen, a letter from the federal manpower, besides the rental, went to the existing federal firefighters, the union leader, Gutters, said.
“I don’t know how it can,” he said. “I think it’s a slap on the faces of these brave men and women who are there who are contributing to public service and to save communities, just staying on the hill, saying, ‘Hey, here Your resignation letter is – Sign through this date. ‘ “
