[Jeff Head]

It is a very plausible thing Trav. They'd just have to wait for the right conditions in any region and drive the highways and do it. Five teams, ten teams ... twenty teams. I believe they have the people in the country already to mount it.

They would probably have one or two security guys in the van or car with them armed with assault rifles to take on any state trooper, sheriff, or citizen that tried to interrupt.

How to stop it? Unfortumnately, we're not prepared to stop anything on this scale. We have a lot of volunteer fire departments throughout the west and we have smoke jumpers and the national guard ... but they are all reactive after it's really going.

Until more and more citizens are armed and can interdict it at force of arms when it occurs, all we can do is react IMHO.

[wardaddy]

BTTT!

[Travis McGee]

I think that we would need to deputize thousands of armed volunteer "forest wardens" to have any chance at all to prevent this type of attack.

Naturally, this idea will be anathema to the fedgov, which would prefer to shoot down airliners rather than arm their civilian pilots.

After a firestorm attack, some western governors may act on their own to duputize forest wardens, most likely it will be against the wishes of federal homeland security edicts.