CNN New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez June 4, 2024 11:23:00
Out from the nearest civilization, you're just reliant on your hand tools and your teammates. so it's actually kind of a wild thing when you think about living in 2021 that people are fighting these huge mammoth fires really with machinery that is 50 years old. >> yeah, with their hands, no less. hot shots take on life-risking jobs, working, what, 24-hour days? and people would assume that those kinds of jobs -- this is a federal job -- make a lot of money. but that's not the case at all. i was looking at the numbers. united states forest service pays hot shots $38,000 if i'm correct and state...
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