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Kim Kardashian is advocating for all the incarcerated firefighters battling the LA fires.
On Saturday, the SKIMS founder took to her Instagram Story to thank the brave firefighters out on the frontlines amid the ferocious and unrelenting wildfires. She wrote:
“Thank you @calfire La County Fire and Los Angeles City Fire for everything you are doing to save lives, homes, and property.”
But it couldn’t be done without the help of incarcerated firefighters… And Kim wants them to be compensated fairly for “risking their lives”! In a follow Story post, she wrote:
“On all 5 fires in Los Angeles, there are hundreds of incarcerated firefighters, risking their lives to save us. They are on the Palisades fire and Eaton fire in Pasadena working 24 hour shifts. They get paid almost nothing, risk their lives, some have died, to prove to the community that they have changed and are now first responders. I see them as heroes.”
So just how little do they make? Kim revealed:
“The incarcerated firefighters have been paid $1/hour to risk their lives, and this pay has been the same since 1984. It has never been raised with inflation. It’s never been raised when fires got worse and many died. This year there was an agreement to raise the incarcerated firefighter pay to $5/hour, but it got shut down last minute.”
Wow… Only $1/hour to put their lives on the line to save so many.
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The mom of four then went on to directly call on Governor Gavin Newsom to change that:
“I am urging @cagovernor to do what no Governor has done in 4 decades, and raise the incarcerated firefighter pay to a rate [that] honors a human being risking their life to save our lives and homes.”
In a fourth and final Story post, she concluded:
“And lastly I want to thank the firefighters from the @calfire Ventura Training Center for saving my community when it started burning this week. These are all FORMERLY incarcerated firefighters who have come home, and want to continue serving our community as firefighters. Due to bills passed by @antirecidivismcoalition, these guys can now get their sentences reduced, expunging the felonies from their records for their fire service. And when they come home can get six figure jobs working for the fire departments.”
She also shared the following video:
Earlier this week, the KarJenner brood, including Kim, Kris, Kourtney, Khloé, Rob, Kendall, and Kylie were all forced to evacuate their homes. But they made sure to hook local firefighters up with catered meals for all their hard work.
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