At least the employees provide soem level fo service. besides beign scapegoated.
Yes, this is true, but being “scapegoated” is not.
BTW a close family member recently trained for vol. firefighter and first responder; he makes a tiny amount of $ for his work, not really enough to pay for gas driving to the station. So I learned about the 500 firefighter deaths a year from the materials he studies.
PS - public employee unions should be illegal.