Comment by Ajedi32
Don't "prescribed burns" fall under the category of firefighting? That's the whole reason you do controlled burns in the first place, right? To prevent a larger fire later?
Don't "prescribed burns" fall under the category of firefighting? That's the whole reason you do controlled burns in the first place, right? To prevent a larger fire later?
Sadly no, and (IANAL) the law here is clear AFAIK. Money cannot be spent outside of what it was allocated. Firefighting I'm given to understand explicitly excludes prevention. This might be one of the most short sighted budget allocations I've ever seen. As a dollar spent on prevention easily covers 10 on fighting.