{"id":173092,"date":"2024-09-20T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/?p=173092"},"modified":"2024-09-20T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:30:13","slug":"the-guardian-broken-toilets-bed-bugs-and-rats-us-firefighters-are-in-a-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrc.org\/the-guardian-broken-toilets-bed-bugs-and-rats-us-firefighters-are-in-a-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Broken Toilets, Bed Bugs And Rats: US Firefighters Are In A Housing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guardian, June 13, 2024, Broken Toilets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/13\/firefighter-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bed Bugs And Rats: US Firefighters Are In A Housing Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bathrooms in Ben McLane\u2019s barracks haven\u2019t worked for the last three years. It\u2019s just one of several \u201cembarrassing\u201d problems with the living quarters offered by the US government to the federal fire captain\u2019s poorly paid crew. Along with having to rely on portable toilets, this season his firefighters have also had to grapple with bed bugs and rodent infestations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Issues like these are common in the dilapidated and aging facilities that federal land management agencies rent out to many of their workers across the US. It\u2019s a problem felt particularly by federal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/firefighters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firefighters<\/a>, who get by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/14\/us-forest-service-wildfire-fighters-low-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on incomes as low as $15 an hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian, June 13, 2024, Broken Toilets, Bed Bugs And Rats: US Firefighters Are In A Housing Crisis The bathrooms in Ben McLane\u2019s barracks haven\u2019t worked for the last three years. It\u2019s just one of several \u201cembarrassing\u201d problems with the living quarters offered by the US government to the federal fire captain\u2019s poorly paid crew. 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