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Have an event that takes our services out or is greater than what were actually expecting and thats the challenge for all of us, all the service providers, is working together to figure out how to make that happen. Mr. Boland. This is where we fit into that link. We represent the utilities that protect and build the resill yepbs into the infrastructure. We fill a gap in attitude which is the relationships, distant and local relationships, cross boundaries between the multi disciplines in the utilities. We are able to cross those lines in the counties and step up to state operations so everybod...

Fires in california, but if you look at a global disaster perspective where you have a hundred thousand victims like a tsunami or a large scale event, we have yet to experience that in this nation. I think the agreements we have here today and the relationships we develop today are going to be key to mitigate that. The other scenario that we are concerned with is a coordinated aerial incendiary attack by al qaeda. One of the things weve seen already in the European Union is suspect of al qaeda starting fires in the eu if that happened in california in the right weather conditions, it would be ...

Forthcoming. Maybe there was one individual who might have seen something happening and recognizing we cant let bad things happen. That is why we do this. One, we globally engage because its the right thing to do. We are citizens of the world and we deserve to take care of those less fortunate than us. And we do it because we wapt to increase communications, we want to foster communication because if somebody says i know of something bad thats going to happen in america, i just dont think they deserve that, ive seen them in action. Were trying to intensify and heighten those communications and...

Say, if theres one guy in this room that is the unsung hero of fleet week, its lewis. He doesnt get a lot of recognition but he spends 16 hours a day this time of year working on fleet week and we went to him applause when we went to him with this admittedly somewhat crazy idea, we said, we want to partner with you and by that i mean i want you it raise some money. And he didnt even blink. He said, well, how much do you need and we calculated it out. Really in the world of corporate america, not that much. In the world of government, even less. And he said, yeah, we can do that. Let me make so...

Vegetation management with prieflt ranch owners and private land owners as well as on state and cooperating with our federal agencies with the u. S. Forest service. So twofold program, vegetation management, we aggressively pursue that, but also from a Public Education stand point. What we find in these large scale incidents, the public is going to have to be selfsustaining and selfsupporting. They need to be prepared. We try to educate them in respect that we say well provide the offense, you provide the defense. We talk to them about hardening their structures in a defensive measure against ...