we dont have the resources to save our national treasures, we are too busy saving Iraq and Afghanistan
Don’t forget that islamic terrorists have specifically targeted western forests for arson, including this year.
in just three years, Obama has destroyed our once thriving auto industry, our military victories in Iraq and Afghanistan, our military and has not only permitted the Mountain Pine Beetle to destroy all of our forests, but has gutted our air tanker fleet from 44 to 9.
Evergreen Aviation has 747 tankers that can drop water or retardant in massive quantities.
It and other planes have been sitting idle while the eco fecal freaks in the White hut ring their hands over the possibility of dead fish from dropped fire retardant.
The victims in Colorado should sue all the aholes involved in withholding these tools that could have been used to fight these fires in Colorado and around the country.
Evergreen's 747 Supertanker
747 Super Tanker Fire figther
Uncle Obama promised more gifts from socialism during his recent speech, so there will be more tankers and firepersons for the socialist elite: NIMBY, sole arbiters of nature, living on fat government incomes.
Yes that is correct. Aircraft available have been drastically reduced. Aircraft “too old” and losses from crashes. But, do not worry...the government will “protect” us
They will say they didn’t. You see, what they did was to cancel the contract with Aerounion on the grounds of poor maintenance for one thing. Not entirely true. Aerounion self-reported to the feds that they were falling behind on maintenance because they were flying too much.
On top of this the fed bean counters will not enter into long term or fixed minimum contracts. They want the tanker outfits to give them a rate for a call out contract with no specified minimum but then want the tanker folks to meet all kinds of costly requirements. Tankers have only one purpose, fight fires. It takes a certain amount to keep them running and it has to be met or they will not function when needed.
Kinda like a fire truck. How would it work out if the FD just got paid by the fire on a fixed fee basis no matter how many fires there are? Some years there would be more than enough to keep the trucks maintained and other years nothing or near nothing. It wouldn’t work.