Priority Area: Community Resilience
Barrier: Fire-Adaptive Infrastructure

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Community Program Implementation )

Pay fire crew workers at living wages with full benefits, recognizing that the hardness and complexity of this work requires compensation that competes with other employment, and that agency wage structures that pay significantly below living wage undermine both workforce retention and the ability to build tribally sovereign fire programs. 

Existing Examples of Progress: The Tamien Nation made this a core principle of their cultural fire program: paying twice the Department of Forestry's approximately $17/hour rate, with full benefits at no out-of-pocket cost.
Region: Central Coast

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