This sounds like Cali is threatening to go BLM and "burn the mf down" here. Apparently they use a different definition of volunteer.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-pay-18m-fire-debt-or-well-watch-it-burn.html
But Ghilarducci said the federal government was shirking its responsibilities to reimburse local governments by illogically relying on a "sudden interpretation" of a 1955 law that prevents the government from paying volunteer firefighters.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-pay-18m-fire-debt-or-well-watch-it-burn.html