On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 05 > May > 2008 22:46:03 -0700 > > > I'm still watching this one. > > > > However, one plus that Sanders has in his corner is that he got the fire > > handling right. Yeah, it wasn't all Sanders, and he is benefiting from > > the hindsight of the Cedar fires. However, it was a model of > > competency--he had the right people in the right positions. > > ah, because we no longer send out the large majority of our fire fighting > personnel and equipment without the ability to recall them and Sanders > gets credit for this? > > I"m sorry but I remember well the weekend of the Cedar fires and I > remember the weather reports leading up to that weekend where it > was often labelled a "Red Flag" event. When I heard the CDF called > off helo water drops when they were already enroute and then that > we had much of our heavy equipment up in Riverside country and > couldn't get it back....it showed how poorly qualified the people > running the show were. But some obvious things were exposed and > procedures corrected. > You know air water drops as a means of fire suppression is not generally effective. They are often used simply as a very expensive (sometimes at the cost of pilots life) PR method. People think that is what they should see, so that is what they are given. Not to say that they don't have a place, just that most of the time, they are for show, while all the real firefighting still happens on the ground. -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
