The way is clear. If they have no contract the planes are free to be contracted directly to the State of Texas.
Texas should bypass the forest service and get the planes in the air.....if they are in fact needed
Ithink I read somewhere here that 60 people are out of work.
The planes cannot fly without those people.
Probably most of them could be rehired, but it would take time. They should never have been laid off to begin with when this country has a history of fires. Why aren’t environmental folks screaming about this with all of the smoke and Global warming large fires cause.
If there is a stupid solution for something, Obama seems able to find it. Laying off these tankers was the work of a damned fool.