Local news outlet Redheaded Blackbelt has an item, basically recycling a Press Release, about a residence that is being burned down to give firefighters a training exercise.
Certainly, firefighters need to learn their craft, but there are ways to accomplish that without sacrificing supposed priorities.
My Comment on Redheaded Blackbelt's FB Page:
Imagine a world in which students would volunteer their time, while learning useful skills, to fix that residence up so that some Cal Poly and College Of The Redwoods students could live there instead of in their cars.
Much better to blow tremendous amounts on boondoggles. As Woodward and Bernstein said, "Follow The Money".
Or as California government would say, “Burn Baby Burn!”.
Humboldt Bay Fire To Conduct Live Fire Training On Humboldt Hill
What irony. Always the whine of "We need more affordable housing".