Low wages are driving firefighters away from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry. Lawmakers have backed a bill to fill the vacancies with conscripts. — Meduza
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Russia’s State Duma has passed a bill in its first reading that would allow conscripts to serve in military units of the Emergencies Ministry’s Federal Fire Service.

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An explanatory note accompanying the bill says it would help reduce the service’s “existing staffing shortage.”

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  • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    In the States, many of us already know that putting out a fire is not what throwing tires on it does, exactly. Ironically, training those conscripts is more likely to come too late; consequences are already a’knockin’, Pooty.