Those wages are a fraction of the salaries received by citizen firefighters in California, who can earn upwards of $100,000 annually.

“That might be upwards of 10,000 structures that need to be searched for human remains.”

At least 10 people have died and upwards of 180,000 people have been evacuated with more than 10,000 structures destroyed.

This intervention worked, in part, to slow irregular border arrivals, with Border Patrol recording fewer than 200,000 nationwide encounters each month after the Securing the Border rule took effect, compared to the upwards of 240,000 nationwide encounters seen in each prior month of fiscal year 2024.

Upwards of 10 million people visit Bourbon Street each year.