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On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Retired CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Mike Lopez praised California’s mutual aid system and said that the recent fires would be tough to combat even with more firefighters, but budget cuts have created an issue with staffing.
Lopez answered, “Well, throughout government, in California, and across the country, fire departments are at — they’re trying to retain as many firefighters as they can and trying to hire. But because of budget cuts along those lines, that always creates an issue, across this country, specifically, California. There’s a lot of that. But fire gets put out by firefighters. If you lack firefighters, that is one of the issues that really contributes to this.
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