So you are saying both stop the fire borrowing so that we have more money in advance to actually do fuel reduction preparedness, but then, in addition, be ready for more rapid resp...
Clearly you have put on the table some new ideas and points of direction that we should go in.
To me, that's a national priority, to protect those forests.
I think that any legislation really needs to deal with those two pieces.
I just want to ask the witnesses. Obviously this is a big priority for the State of Washington.
To me, a more robust communication system that helps both in the communication about the fire, and in the response is so...
When other capacity is down.
That gives you the latest information.
It seems to me that this is probably not unique necessarily to firefighting in the context of natural disasters.
I do not know if anybody else or Commissioner Goldmark has a comment on that, but one thing we did hear as we were going...
All of the witnesses mentioned these community preparedness plans. In some cases, I think, we are talking about everythi...