Martha Bellisle writing for ABC News on How Trump’s mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers:
Melanie Mattox Green, who was fired from her land management and environmental planning job at the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana, said their fire-prevention efforts prioritized areas where towns border forest lands. Staffing cuts put those towns at risk, she said.
“If a fire breaks out now without these projects occurring, that fire is going to be far more dangerous to our local communities,” she said.
Of course this will happen. The same asshole who said that wildfires could be stopped by raking the forests is letting the Apartheid Nepo Baby cause national security and public safety crises left and right.