California Bill Would Ban Private Firefighters From Using Hydrants, Cites Public Good
5th March 2025
Like the Mafia, the Deep State does not suffer competition.
California lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban private firefighters, like those who saved many buildings in the Palisades and Eaton fires, from using public hydrants, saying firefighting is a “public good.”
Assemblyman Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, introduced Assembly Bill 1075 with the support of the California Professional Firefighters Union, which claims private firefighters are not trained or equipped as well.
“They don’t train to the same standards,” said California Professional Firefighters Union President Brian Rice to Politico regarding the bill. “They’re not equipped like we are. They’re not professionals like we are.”
An assertion for which neither evidence nor argument is presented. I suspect that ‘private firefighers are former public firefighters who are working in the private sector because the pay is better, much like military contractors, all of whom are experienced veterans. Nobody would hire a military contractor who didn’t have military training and experience, and no ‘private firefighters’ would hire somebody who didn’t have the relevant training and experience. This is just another Statist lie: “Government employees good, everybody else bad.”