Kim Kardashian gets slammed by veteran actor for pushing her agenda during LA fires

Kim Kardashian received a stern reprimand from an established actor for her activism during the devastating Los Angeles fires.

The 44-year-old reality star received a call from Heat actor Danny Trejo on Wednesday during a conversation with TMZ.

Trejo, 80, took Kim to task for allegedly politicizing the disaster by exposing the fate of the incarcerated firefighters assigned to battle the blaze.

Kim wrote on Instagram that the “hundreds” of incarcerated firefighters are in the field, and they only earn between $5.80 and $10.24 per hour, according to police. California Department of Corrections website.

The social media star noted that in emergency situations like the current gunfight – “never increased by inflation” – they earn just $1 more per hour, despite doing incredibly dangerous work.

Despite Trejo’s criticism, Kardashian’s plea is supported by some members of the state government, including Democratic Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, who has introduced a bill to increase pay for inmate firefighters who are “actively fighting a fire” to the lowest professional state firefighter pay, according Politics.

Trejo — who has firsthand knowledge of the situation after spending a decade in prison and reportedly working as a firefighter while behind bars — countered that this wasn’t the right time for Kim to talk about compensation for incarcerated firefighters.

“Right now, as far as inmates getting paid — pros, cons, whatever — it’s true, Kim, you have to worry about the people who lost everything,” Trejo said.

“You still did everything!” he added, urging her to focus on those who had “absolutely nothing but the clothes on their backs” after losing their belongings in the fires.

He even went so far as to claim that the “people in prison” were “fine.”

The Machete star started the trend of ‘everyone needed'[ing] a cause’ and he began convicting convicts for ‘committing a.’ [crime]before stopping himself.

‘I hate to say this! I was a criminal,” he said, laughing.

“Guys, I’m sorry, but just put out the damn fire and we’ll figure out what to do,” he continued between chuckles.

Inmate firefighters haven’t seen their pay for the job increase since 1984, and Kim — who has been accused of wasting copious amounts of water during the California trek — noted that a proposal to cut firefighters’ emergency bonus could happen again. $1 an hour to $5 an hour was shot.

But Trejo pointed out that the value of inmate work is worth more than just the pay itself — which is significantly more than what inmates earn from other prison work.

Inmate firefighters — who must be released from minimum-security prisons, have no disciplinary violations and have less than five years on their sentences — can have time subtracted from their sentences by volunteering to fight fires.

It is also one of the few jobs available to prisoners that only accept volunteers, as prisoners cannot be forced to join firefighting teams, although some may feel compelled to do the dangerous work due to the desire to earn more money or get out. out of jail sooner.

Trejo rejected calls for more pay for incarcerated firefighters, claiming that most of their pay would go toward the restitution they owe, even though higher pay would likely bring them closer to paying off their debts or give them more money then yield these compensations once they are released. .

Inmate firefighters have some freedoms that other prisoners do not have, because they live in outcamps when they are fighting fires, rather than in their assigned prison, and they are usually not actively monitored by guards when they are busy fighting fires.

The inmates usually work 24-hour shifts followed by a day off, although the schedule can be more hectic in emergency situations like the current LA fires.

Unlike traditional firefighters who learn how to handle hoses and rescue people from burning buildings, incarcerated firefighters train in the wild to cut brush and dig trenches to create breaks in wildfires.

However, they do receive training from Cal Fire and may be eligible to work for the operation upon release, even if they have been convicted of a crime.

Some inmate firefighters may even be able to have their convictions expunged after serving on firefighting teams, which could make it easier to get other jobs in the future.

Trejo concluded by warning potential arsonists that they are comparable to “sexual assaulters” in terms of the severity of their crime.

“This is not a good crime,” he said, although there is no evidence so far that LA’s massive fires were started by arsonists.

He compared arson unfavorably to a crime considered “more glamorous” by inmates, such as an “armed robbery” of a bank, where the stolen money is insured.

Trejo, on the other hand, said arson only causes “pain and fear.” [and] sadness.’

The actor spent years with the police after doing his first drug deal at the age of seven and being arrested for the first time at the age of ten.

He was in and out of prison in the late 1950s and 1960s, before being released in 1069 after serving five years of a ten-year sentence.

During his time in prison, Trejo became sober and graduated from high school, and later became a substance abuse counselor.

Trejo started acting in the mid-80s and went on to have roles in modern classics including Desperado, Heat, From Dusk Till Dawn and The Devil’s Rejects, among many others.

Instead, energy company Edison International is under investigation over claims that a downed conductor may have started one of the fires.

Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed against Southern California Edison over claims that the power company caused the Eaton fire, which devastated Altadena and Pasadena.

So far, 24 people have died as a result of the LA fires, and more than 180,000 people have been forced to evacuate.