On the recordOctober 1, 2003
I join my colleague in those sentiments. Many times we do not even say thank you collectively to this group of people. They do not ask any questions. They are sort of like soldiers. When they see a problem, they just grab their equipment and go; and the community depends on them. We depend on them, and they save the government a lot of money. We hope that in some way we can figure out how to make available to them at least some types of equipment. I heard, as I mentioned earlier, I heard the word ``generator'' mentioned over and over again. Hopefully, we can figure out a way to make some funding available to these small towns, rural areas, to have generators available to them when these crises come into the community. They can at least keep the water system and the sewer system going until we can get the power back on.
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