The Trump administration's recent mass firings affected around 4,400 National Park Service and Forest Service employees, including essential staff like locksmiths, HVAC technicians, and EMTs. With the park's lone locksmith, Nate Vince, now laid off, vital emergency services in Yosemite and surrounding areas are compromised. Alex Wild, a fired ranger, criticized the firings as reckless. Some employees highlighted the risk of wildfires due to lost staff responsible for prevention and cleanup. The firings raise alarms about the safety of millions of visitors relying on these critical services during their trips to national parks.
"Imagine a city-size place with one locksmith to all those people. When there's a car accident and an emergency medical person can't get into a vehicle... they would call me."
"This is flat-out reckless," the park ranger Alex Wild wrote on Instagram after the elimination of his job... he got a form email saying that he had 'failed to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment.'
"My crew is responsible for so much prevention and post-wildfire cleanup, and at this point it's almost a guarantee that this forest will have some sort of major wildfire."
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