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Percent of all wild fires in california with 10 acres or less and we do this with an aggressive report of incidents, even with a 911 call of smoepk with land, air and ground attack. Once fires become to a large enough scale we call mue tour aid, california lass a great mue tour aid system. I think its looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. Once it reaches that point, the team will come in and assist the local jurisdiction to run that incid...

The last ones in and the first ones out. We do have an ongoing relationship with cal fire, im in contact with cal fire all the time. We have good Situational Awareness whats going on in the state of california. They normally put us in an alert stat us so were prepared to respond in an attack mode. I dont often work with chief chaney in southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other respons...

Great mue tour aid system. I think its looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. Once it reaches that point, the team will come in and assist the local jurisdiction to run that incident. When we start having multiple fires in a certain area, then we get into what we call area command. I think that provides the overview. I talked a little bit about mous and relationships with the marines. Maybe we can talk about how is the National Guard and d...

Friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the ongoing efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. Just to follow on that, the Navy Squadrons that provide Fire Fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. One benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in...

Space. Were dropping water and fire retardant instead of bombs and rockets. We work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. We do that with squadron training. We still have khal lefrpg wills, im not going to lie to you. We have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. Cal guard, we purchased the radios for National Guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have Robust Communications with california National Guard, with navy and marine corps it...

Governors Blue Panel Commission report looked at also a lot of those kind of things and what i did was just put a picture up there to show you the 2007 wild fires. When we get to these major wild fires, were talking about multiple wild fires and almost what you would call a fire storm. A lot of the Lessons Learned there are in bullets from just 2007. Why this discussion is important and Lessons Learned up there, the 2007 fires burned a little over 500,000 acres, destroyed over 3200 structures an...

Southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. We have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. We allow the operational foresight, we maintain...

Somewhat simple but very effective solution was the use of defense connect on line, the dco chat room. Basically cal fire personnel, along with all the individual squadrons, all connected realtime able to communicate and coordinate both from the squadron and also on scene. Well, thank you. Lets go ahead and move into relationships. We had a significant discussion yesterday about relationships and again the highlighted and supervisor chius comments this morning. How do we ensure they are enduring...

Were going to build that within next years springtime exercise. Thank you. Lets go ahead and move over to a discussion of resources and theres a number of resources that dod brings to bear whether its personnel or equipment or systems that they have. As i look back to my experience with the 20032007 fires, the one that stands out to me is the use and integration of helicopters. I can remember after the 2003 helicopters doing a field hearing with Duncan Hunter about the integration of helicopters...