All good thx . The Anti-California bias, I can totally understand
Bad Rep in the fire community ?? as far as tactics, handling , work ethic, LG vs State vs Fed FF and how they are , thier wants , needs, or expectations ect ??
Guess I don’t fully understand without an example and not such a broad statement
In no way slinging Ill will, just curious
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I would have answered this sooner but I took a "temporary" job as truck boss for a small fleet of water tenders. I've been spending most of my time on the road from one fire to another.
The anti-Californian bias isn't something you need to worry about. You'll find it expressed mostly by lower echelon overhead that don't know any better. The more experienced overhead might feel the same bias but they tend to keep their mouth shut about it.
Again it's a case of a few bad apples from our corner of the world who, thinking that they were superior beings and therefore infallible, swaggered into one too many incidents, ran their mouth, and then couldn't back up what they said with experience or a plan of action.
You've been in this business long enough to know that a bad reputation is hard to shake. In a lot of cases, most cases probably, the anti-Californian bias isn't valid.
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.