Concerns persist:
The nation's growing army of private firefighters, many of whom earn $10 to $11 an hour at entry level with no benefits, has not yet won universal acceptance.Trone-Goad/PE 16.Oct.07
-
As many as half of the roughly 5,000 private firefighters based in the Pacific Northwest and contracted by state and federal governments to fight forest fires are immigrants, mostly from Mexico. And an untold number of them are working here illegally.Kirk Johnson/Yosemite Area 28.May.06
-
Haven't yet found current status of private firefighters in California, which is combusting all over at present.
Naomi Klein in The Nation on 01.Jul.08:
With the globe being rocked by multiple shocks, this seems like a good time to see how and where the strategy is being applied.
And the disaster capitalists have been busy--from private firefighters already on the scene in Northern California's wildfires, to land grabs in cyclone-hit Burma, to the housing bill making its way through Congress.
