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Hear more of it. back in 1985, if you took all the fires they were out there fighting, it was about the size of connecticut. most of them in the west but about that size. and, let me bring it in here and show you, this is the cost of fighting fires. 1985, the budget came out to be $240 million. that's how much it costs to fight the fires the size of connecticut, roughly. last year, 2012, let's go back to the big board here. we had about three connecticut's worth of fires out there. three times as much. so, let's come back to the number over here. if you wanted to compare it, we can expect this...

>> wildfires raging out of control right now in texas. >> already killing two people in the state of colorado. >> this is a libertarian show but even they say fighting fires as one of the few things the government must do. who will do it if not government? private companies. you probably don't know nearly half the people the federal government uses to fight wildfires work for private companies. it is a myth that must be done by government and in some parts of america if your house catches fire it is a private business to put it out. how does this work? the house catches fire you put it out and...

>> wildfires raging out of control right now in texas. >> already killing two people in the state of colorado. >> this is a libertarian show but even they say fighting fires as one of the few things the government must do. who will do it if not government? private companies. you probably don't know nearly half the people the federal government uses to fight wildfires work for private companies. it is a myth that must be done by government and in some parts of america if your house catches fire it is a private business to put it out. how does this work? the house catches fire you put it out and...

Wildfires raging out of control right now in texas. >> raging wile fire already killing two people in the state of colorado. >> summer is wildfire season. now, this is a libertarian show, but even many libertarians say fighting fires is one of the few things that government must do. who is going to do it if not government? well, private companies, that's who. you probably don't know that nearly half the people the federal government uses to fight wildfires work for private companies. it's a myth that fire fighting must be done by governments. in some parts of america if your house catches fire...

>> yeah, i just hope that i could wake up and it would be a really bad dream. >> reporter: there's so much pride for what grant and robert did to protect people. their relatives were always concerned when they didn't hear from them for hours on end while fighting fires. but family members flew they were doing what they loved. however, now the pain is so immenls. >> i had hoped that both of my boys had died with smoke inhalation, because i figured that would knock them out quick and they wouldn't know anything. then she told me yesterday that my daughter linda, robert's mother, that it's worse....