Yea, well I get very tired of these out-of-state clowns coming on CA threads with their stupid remarks...like THEIR states NEVER have disasters...why hell if not for CA and other state Firefighters VOLUNTEERING to go elsewhere like Colorado to fight THEIR fires, Colorado would look like a briquette today!
Any excuse to bad mouth California...
Most of these people are just jealous of Cal or plain ignorant.
What some of these people don't realize, is California has some of the best, most highly trained rescue teams, law enforcement, and firefighters in the *world*.
As you pointed out, in Katrina, New Orleans, Hurricane Ike, 911 terrorist attacks in New York, Oklahoma City bombing etc, etc Californians were requested and were right there helping out the folks in other states.
We do this all the time.
Kelly, honey, come to New York State. We are blessed here with no fires, no hurricanes, tornadoes, just SNOW, LOL.