05/24/2011
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"I hate to use the word, but 'surplus' planes from the military that we--who knows what they were going to do with them."
"I think we had to bring in two Canadian water tankers, if I remember right, in addition to our crew."
"Do we believe that we have good resources for their continued maintenance and upgrade?"
"We know since the 1990s the amount of money for suppression has gone from about $1 billion to $3 billion."