Page 2 - Ray Cheney News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 ...

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 ...

Communication but the iceu, which is a mobile communications platform, is ideal in events like this to push out to help. Any other questions . I have one. Back in 1992 when it was a big fire season and there was a lot of grass, they came to us and i was down at Camp Pendleton and they asked us it train marines on shovel work. What happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. I havent heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the active forces to be training people to do shovellike work . All you have talked about so far is avia...

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 and how better to integrate them. Theres been a lot of discussion about that but do you feel were r...

Forest when you dont have a fire that make it easier and more effective in fighting the fire . Its an excellent question, sir. We spend a large time in cal fire on Public Education and prevention and also with respect to you were talking about fuel, the fuels program, or Vegetation Management program in cal fire, we have a Robust Program throughout the state where we are conducting burning operations and 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, Vegetat...