Oh, MAN...I cannot STAND this anymore. "Local leaders" are "outraged" that the US government has not responded quickly enough to suppress devestating wildfires caused in part by CA's so-called "forestry policy"...it's not CA's stupd laws that are to blame that the fed won't send air tankers until they KNOW they will be ALLOWED TO PICK UP WATER by the environazi CA STATE GOVERNMENT.
In 2001, 12 federal firefighters were killed in the NW because the takner they requested and THOUGHT was coming was HELD UP BY THE STATE FORESTRY SERVICE. The water didn't get there in time to save them.