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Thanks AuntB, not me (I'm from Louisiana) but some of the machines I developed are up there helping out. It's a tracked wildland firefighting apparatus built around surplus M-548 vehicles that cost the tax payers $250,000 dollars each new and were being dumped in the ocean for artificial reefs or used for target practice until we put them to use fighting wildland fires.

So I've had experience trying to work with some of these bureaucrats. Many were good people before the system wore them down. Plus there are still a lot of dedicated and hard working folks out there but protecting ones turf and A$$ seems to take precidence over protecting forests, property and lives.

We have these vehicles all over the US including Northern California, Washington State, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, N.C. and other places.

Btw, it's called a Firetrack... ;-)

I've been pushing for more sophisticated vehicles using the latest technology and for the development of fire fighting units based on this type of equipment with out much success.

Hopefully you folks will get some rain soon. We were all amazed at how early the fire season started this year.