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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 ...

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 ...

Somewhat simple but very effective solution was the use of defense connect on line, the dco chat room. Basically cal fire personnel, along with all the individual squadrons, all connected realtime able to communicate and coordinate both from the squadron and also on scene. Well, thank you. Lets go ahead and move into relationships. We had a significant discussion yesterday about relationships and again the highlighted and supervisor chius comments this morning. How do we ensure they are enduring past the past couple years. As general speese said yesterday, we are here for the long time. On the...

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...