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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 responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the comm...

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 dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the suppo...

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 the squadrons. You may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires....

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 its still a work in progress. We have a work around with that with respect to Tactical Communications ...

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 and caused 10 fatalities. So why this is important, as you start to read the fire weather reports that...