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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 843428" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>MM, you first have to understand that once it becomes a disaster there is a lot of federal money that can be had by the state government and they tally this by equipment and personel within the disaster zone. <u>In the disaster zone </u>is a key point cause if its one mile out they get nothing. If you recall a few years ago I posted some pictues of the fire set by the arsonist. We were 15 miles outside the disaster area so they were reluctant to send us any equipment. After about 3 days they grouped us into the disaster area and then we had all sorts of help putting the fire out. We had helicopters, planes and tractors from Virginia and Texas. We had National Guardsmen riding around tossing cases of MRE's to anyone with open arms. We even had a bunch of weirdoes who didn't know jack about fires from the Nature Conservancy carrying flappers. </p><p></p><p>With that said, if you don't follow this you are missing the point of my contention. I am in fact arguing for the firefighter. I can relate to them moreso than I can some mouse pusher who sits behind a desk all year then comes out and wants to take charge of something they no nothing about. If the firefighters have leadership whose attention is more focused more on the federal money than on the fires then this is a dangerous scenario. The guy I mentioned sitting down for days in a safe zone manning water pumps that would never be crunk up wasn't happy that he was not allowed to fight the fire. My other friend who sat in a hotel room for a solid week when he could have been home with his children - or god forbid fighting the fire - wasn't a happy camper either. Nor were the people in my county whose property burned to the ground because all of the equipment was <u>sitting</u> in or around Waycross. The story I mentioned about the 4 tractors being told to attack the crowning head actually happened. </p><p></p><p>What I'm saying is that the taxpayer and the firefighter's deserve better than this. Is it not plausible that maybe the two firefighters who lost their lives might still be alive today had someone not been holding on to unneeded resources just so they could get a larger reimbursement? I know we wouldn't have lost near the amount of acreage had they not played this game with us and I know this would have never happened 15 years ago when putting out fires was just that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 843428, member: 4362"] MM, you first have to understand that once it becomes a disaster there is a lot of federal money that can be had by the state government and they tally this by equipment and personel within the disaster zone. [u]In the disaster zone [/u]is a key point cause if its one mile out they get nothing. If you recall a few years ago I posted some pictues of the fire set by the arsonist. We were 15 miles outside the disaster area so they were reluctant to send us any equipment. After about 3 days they grouped us into the disaster area and then we had all sorts of help putting the fire out. We had helicopters, planes and tractors from Virginia and Texas. We had National Guardsmen riding around tossing cases of MRE's to anyone with open arms. We even had a bunch of weirdoes who didn't know jack about fires from the Nature Conservancy carrying flappers. With that said, if you don't follow this you are missing the point of my contention. I am in fact arguing for the firefighter. I can relate to them moreso than I can some mouse pusher who sits behind a desk all year then comes out and wants to take charge of something they no nothing about. If the firefighters have leadership whose attention is more focused more on the federal money than on the fires then this is a dangerous scenario. The guy I mentioned sitting down for days in a safe zone manning water pumps that would never be crunk up wasn't happy that he was not allowed to fight the fire. My other friend who sat in a hotel room for a solid week when he could have been home with his children - or god forbid fighting the fire - wasn't a happy camper either. Nor were the people in my county whose property burned to the ground because all of the equipment was [u]sitting[/u] in or around Waycross. The story I mentioned about the 4 tractors being told to attack the crowning head actually happened. What I'm saying is that the taxpayer and the firefighter's deserve better than this. Is it not plausible that maybe the two firefighters who lost their lives might still be alive today had someone not been holding on to unneeded resources just so they could get a larger reimbursement? I know we wouldn't have lost near the amount of acreage had they not played this game with us and I know this would have never happened 15 years ago when putting out fires was just that. [/QUOTE]
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