"Thank you very much, Mayor. And just for folks here in the room, these are pictures from that fire, and it is incredible devastation that occurred."
"We know since the 1990s the amount of money for suppression has gone from about $1 billion to $3 billion."
"Do we believe that we have good resources for their continued maintenance and upgrade?"
"we thought this was a great win-win not only for the Forest Service but the Coast Guard for equipment that is desperately needed."
"I think we had to bring in two Canadian water tankers, if I remember right, in addition to our crew."
"It has now become a systemic issue that I am now seeing in others."
"Sometimes, you have got to have some heads roll in order to get the system to shape up."
"If they are cheating, they are not trustworthy."
"It is critical that we figure out the systematic problem."
"To not have the service delivered at the highest level to our veterans is a disservice."
"As a former mayor, we would fire them. They would be gone."