Great mue tour aid system. I think its looked at nationally because we have souch excellent cooperation with our cooperating agencies. Once it reaches that point, the team will come in and assist the local jurisdiction to run that incident. When we start having multiple fires in a certain area, then we get into what we call area command. I think that provides the overview. I talked a little bit about mous and relationships with the marines. Maybe we can talk about how is the National Guard and dod resources and capabilities integrated into the command and control at the fire and also the supporting ops centers whether it be the gac or other centers down there. Maybe our military personnel can talk about that, or ray. Its important to note that we are the supporting effort to cal fire and we get called in when they are basically out of assets. We are working for cal fire, they are the incident commanders, we follow their coordination, typically were the last ones in and the first ones o
Friends and neighbors. Sustainment is, its important to us and well maintain it especially on the region side. Were able to have these longstanding relationships while the operating force side goes forward and supports the ongoing efforts, we are able to stay back here and sustain those relationships. Just to follow on that, the Navy Squadrons that provide Fire Fighting capability are a combination of active and reserve components. One benefit of reserve components is more longevity is pilots in the squadrons. You may have people who have been there for 6, 7 years and have seen multiple fires. That mutual trust is absolutely essential to this capability. A couple things that come it mind real briefly, were talking about wild and land fires primarily but rest assured amongst the group here were always thinking in an all rest capacity. Cal fires mission is we are the states fire department. We are thinking about all Risk Missions whether its fire, flood, natural or man made disaster, wha
Space. Were dropping water and fire retardant instead of bombs and rockets. We work closely with cal guard, navy and marine corps aviation. We do that with squadron training. We still have khal lefrpg wills, im not going to lie to you. We have issues where tactical to air communication is difficult. Cal guard, we purchased the radios for National Guard aircraft and they installed them in their aircraft so we have Robust Communications with california National Guard, with navy and marine corps its still a work in progress. We have a work around with that with respect to Tactical Communications and we use coordinating helicopters to handle air to ground tactical situations and that is relayed to the aircraft that are in trail. Its not perfect but its a work around and it keeps everybody in the fight. Prior to 20011 2011 the navy Fire Fighting capability was concentrated in one squadron. In 2011 it began to expand to other helicopter squadrons. One consequence of that would be multiple sq
Fires in california, but if you look at a global disaster perspective where you have a hundred thousand victims like a tsunami or a large scale event, we have yet to experience that in this nation. I think the agreements we have here today and the relationships we develop today are going to be key to mitigate that. The other scenario that we are concerned with is a coordinated aerial incendiary attack by al qaeda. One of the things weve seen already in the European Union is suspect of al qaeda starting fires in the eu if that happened in california in the right weather conditions, it would be disasterous and everybody in this room would likely be involved. But to go back, its all for me its all about relationships, its all about communication and respecting each others mission. We certainly appreciate our relationships with all 3 agencies up here. The last thing i would say with respect to technology, one of the things as a command and control tool that cal fire is experimenting with i
Southern california, about a month ago we had 9 aircraft at our peak working fires throughout Northern California if that answers your question. Any other responses . I wanted to touch can you hear me now . I wanted to touch on that last topic as far as the command control because what we have here in the marine corps is similar to the navy. We have the installation, the regional installation command and also partners with the operational foresite. We allow the operational foresight, we maintain those but then we coordinate, cooperate, with the operational foresight once the call comes in for support. So were able to do that obviously through memorandum of understandings and we have agreements and our wing operating orders allow for the fact the operational control, at least under operational response, maintains with the operators. The third aircraft wing maintains operational control but we send our operatives out to be controlled by the civic sight. Were comfortable with that and tha