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Mike Garcia: “Wildland firefighters are making like 50% of what the county…”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia Town Hall 06AUG24

Published | Video Starts at 35:25

We're going to have a tough fire season this year, and we'll talk about that here in a second. Wild man firefighters. We have any wild man Wildland firefighters are making like 50% of what the county firefighters are making and what the Cal state firefighters are making. So we need. And half of our district is actually federal land where the wildland firefighters are working. (35:25–35:32)

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Asserts that wildland firefighters earn about half of what county and state firefighters earn.

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