Sacramento, CA…With fires popping up across the state, the California National Guard’s (CalGuard) critical firefighting crews – known as Task Force Rattlesnake – are operating at just 40% capacity. Eight of 14 teams have been diverted to Los Angeles as part of President Trump’s illegal – and highly inefficient – federalization of the Guard. Capacity has only worsened, reducing available crews from nine of 14 last week to just six now.
Joint Task Force Rattlesnake is made up of over 300 California National Guard (CalGuard) members, who work at the direction of CAL FIRE to help fight and prevent fires. The President’s illegal federalization of the Guard has already impacted firefighting efforts, leaving CAL FIRE to step in to fill the gaps left by the Guard’s understaffing.
With peak fire season well underway across California, we need all available resources to protect communities. President Trump: rescind your illegal order and get the Guard back to the critical firefighting and prevention work that actually keeps communities safe.
Governor Gavin Newsom
The National Guard impact is on top of the Trump administration’s dangerous cuts to the U.S. Forest Service, which also threatens the safety of communities across the state. The U.S. Forest Service has lost 10% of all positions and 25% of positions outside of direct wildfire response – both of which are likely to impact wildfire response this year.
California’s unprecedented wildfire readiness
Despite the strain caused by President Trump, California stands ready to protect communities. As part of the state’s ongoing investment in wildfire resilience and emergency response, CAL FIRE has significantly expanded its workforce over the past five years by adding an average of 1,800 full-time and 600 seasonal positions annually – nearly double that from the previous administration. Over the next four years and beyond, CAL FIRE will be hiring thousands of additional firefighters, natural resource professionals, and support personnel to meet the state’s growing demands.
Late last month, the Governor announced $72 million for projects across the state that help reduce catastrophic wildfire risk. Additionally, 20 new vegetation management projects spanning nearly 8,000 acres have already been approved for fast-tracking under the Governor’s new streamlining initiative.
This builds on consecutive years of intensive and focused work by California to confront the severe ongoing risk of catastrophic wildfires, and Governor Newsom’s emergency proclamation signed in March to fast-track forest and vegetation management projects throughout the state. Additionally, to bolster the state’s ability to respond to fires, Governor Newsom recently announced that the state’s second C-130 Hercules airtanker is ready for firefighting operations, adding to the largest aerial firefighting fleet in the world.
New, bold moves to streamline state-level regulatory processes builds long-term efforts already underway in California to increase wildfire response and forest management in the face of a hotter, drier climate. A full list of California’s progress on wildfire resilience is available here.
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Go fight the fires yourself Gavy, maybe you could invite your Tard friends that never get their hands dirty, the illegals do all the work anyway, you and the first “whatever “ are an embarrassment to real working Californians!
Tard is right- that comment is retarded.
When all you can do is be anti common sense as maga is, you are mentally deficient.
The act was illegal, as the deployment of the marines was also.
But maga loves illegalities, (Jan 6) and other seditious illegal acts as we see now from the maga SCOTUS.
maga loves their felon leader, and his racism misogyny and hate for our laws and Constitution.
What a sad sorry group or knuckle draggers.
Gayvin needs to go easy on coiffing his hair with KY Jelly, he’s not as slick as he thinks he is.
A mother who was 5 months pregnant – who’d just found out she and her American citizen fiancee were having a boy – lost her baby after federal agents in a detention center repeatedly denied her pleas for prenatal care.
Lived and worked in Tennessee for years. Detained by ICE for over a month. Forced to sleep on a prison cell floor. Served food with cockroaches. Said she was starving and having stomach pains. Guards told her it was normal. Begged to be deported so at least she could get prenatal care in
Guatemala. ICE refused. She delivered her stillborn baby in front of two guards who shackled her feet. Then, for two days, she wasn’t allowed to call her fiancee or talk to anyone. She cried alone, and was deported to Guatemala shortly after the stillbirth.
Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify his abandoned ice cream cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, lived in the community. “Hardened criminals” – my ass.
The Israelis are psychopaths complete deranged murderers.
Today 410 in Gaza in line for food were killed in an Israeli attack. 25 yesterday, 30 the day before.
Using the Iran war they are in as a distraction, the Israelis are continuing the genocide of the people of Gaza.
The orthodox Jewish lobby has always had the uniting of the West Bank, and the Gaza strip , as they said in 1949 after the 1948 carve out of Palestine by the UN.
They will not stop until all of the former Palestinian state is all Israeli.
They are showing their depravity and loss of any moral standing in this.
Their over reaction to the feeble Gazan rockets, and terrorist attacks is well documented, using Blackhawk helicopters with the latest technology to kill hundreds at a time shows this.
Supporting Israel is a loss of moral clarity.
Good job Israelis, the Tards have a hard time remembering why they are getting their asses Eliminated, does Oct 7th register with you camel lovers? By the way, ICE just rounded up a group of Iranian illegals today,let in by your president Joie, one of those arrested was a confirmed sniper in the Iranian army, I guess you camel lovers will plead for his release, if it was up to me a helicopter ride over the ocean would be just fine!
You all may want to change the title of your rag to the Nut Tree.
What’s happening in California is the delusion of resources because of poor public policy and I think you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Trump’s calling up to National Guard has been deemed not illegal. So I think it’s time that you recant and post a correction.
Can’t believe it Calaveras county is also becoming a sh*t hole, and fake news like this article only displays ignorance.
That pic of Gavvy and CalFire is AT LEAST 4 years old. Get with it Editor. What is your ultimate ambition, FOX??