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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 incident. When we start having multiple fires in a certain area, then we get into what we call area comma...

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....