Serious changes immediately, immediately. It was be a command center captain at all these dispatches. Do you guys have a command center . Anyone speak with we are a small volunteer firefighting unit. Basically a gentleman just paces back and forth and whos listening and he can go yes, yes, yes, give them the world. A good example is in Riverside County back when i was fighting fire and i was going back from a call and i see a plume of smoke and i know that area, i can get on the radio, she responds back, go ahead. Send me the nearest ive fire engine, striking, whatever you we have seen happen of this year backup at Washington People were actually pleased. We see folks coming in, they are cutting down the trees. We got to clean up our yard. Thats the yard. Those lowlevel watershed areas or homes in that area thats the first place that needs to be cleaned up but its hard. Where do you get the funding for that . We tell folks if they do of Large Properties go out and clean your homes and whatnot. And if you live in the urban interface or in the forest, you guys just have to come and realize that your house might burn your i tell people have a drawing of housed in your drawers. There are things we can do to stop her if she is very mad. So to do it on a large scale the United States is huge. All the resources you have, how do you do that . If you have a fire that started 20 miles away, it was a problem but it gets so much energy. Now in todays its at your back door and thats the part, how do you get folks in there . Thats the part we are seeing with the distressed force. I dont have an answer for that but i do have an answer for is a fire starts, get the right tools of there. We know that works. Thats a fact. All the bases are about 99. 9 . When you were in how many fires did you lose as a smokejumper . Zero, right . We are about 99. 999 effective. When we jumped a fire, things are out. So we know we work. So thats why i rob a lot of others and have no problem telling them that. You dont make the decision for us. You guys get home, you can google smokejumper user guide and always challenge in the fire chief in the fire service to anyone whos into command position or whatnot that he needs to read that and understand what we do. So if you guys are all chiefs in the fourth, United States, i dont at all different parts of the United States and you get a fire and you were like im not calling a jumper, its too dangerous. Theres a bunch of rocks up there. You dont make that decision. We make that decision. When we get on station at 1500 we are trained to land entries come in water, and rocks, trained to land to do all these things. You just call us. We will give you handshake. If we cant let in the spot we are intended will find the airport, a road. We will give out of the plane. Thats all you have to do is request us. All we want is a handshake and a ride tobacco. If you dont have a ride for us we will take your credit card and call and get picked up. They have folks in a Forest Service now is that its too dangerous, we can have you guys come that place is bad news up there. I have been witness. Are you joking . Or they say, Percentage Rate is too high. We get hurt all the time when we jumped out of the plane. Very low percentage, today that it has been only six fatalities of jumped operations. Do you think thats a good record . I cant even count how many jumps we currently have. It just shows the amount of safety. We are professional firefighters. Im not a fireman, i make forest technician and the United States smokejumper. Thats the government for you. Have a smokejumpers been deployed to fight any colorado fires . Yes. A natural resource. We can go anywhere in the pacific northwest. Most of the stuff where theres trees. Department of interior and department of agriculture. So you have desert, sage and you have national forest. Student so which fires did you help fight in colorado speak with i couldnt tell you. I wasnt personally there. When we were in the big fires the jumpers were coming in what we call overhead positions. Half of these guys come by vehicle and theyre going to fill in division, task force, operations, logistics. And these games are running around 50, 60, dont quote me. Some of these teams have more people but they come in and manage these big incidents from flood, hurricane. So thats from eating all the troops, logistics if you get hurt, sleeping, everything. So you could be an overhead. We had one in colorado and every do everything that has a list that shows us every base and for every jumper is that on these missions, little acronyms. So right now we have jumpers in washington. Theres some in california doing all these different overhead stuff. So that are out there. Remember, theres only 400 some left so you cant take them all in with them on a big fire because sometimes theres 5000 folks are more. One more question . No. Ready for the test . Its 100 questions and it is multiple choice. [applause] thanks, folks. Is there a Nonfiction Author or a book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email, booktv cspan. Org. Tweet us at the booktv or post a comment on our wall, facebook. Com booktv. Until 7 p. M. There were several reasons why i went to the forefront of speech. I promise to do everything i could to oppose what i believed was a very bad tax agreement between president barack obama and republican leadership. And a time when this country is a 13. 8 trillion National Debt at the most unequal this division of wealth and income of any major country. It seemed to me totally absurd to provide hundreds of billions of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. 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