Jerry Brown gets it. Lowering retirement age for firefighters is a bad idea.

Jerry Brown gets it. Lowering retirement age for firefighters is a bad idea.

No one doubts that California firefighters and police officers perform their duties well and deserve our gratitude for their crucial public service. And before that gratitude, they deserve, as do we all, fair compensation for their work. Especially in the case of firefighters, the pay and pensions they receive are certainly more than fair. The fact that there’s far more demand than supply for firefighting jobs shows that many Californians would …