Think I have a response...this came up before with the Aussies. Boiled down to the question from them of why is a professional fire service so important. Little was it known back then that these types of questions would be rather common. They had all volunteer, 4 planes for the isle. Rah-rah-rah,heros, etc. Our guys sat in the offices, while our guys called here to get organized firefighting sources over. "What is an incident commander?"Sean wrote: ↑With so many fires raging at once, and so many communities under threat of being burned, the firefighters are being stretched thin and worked to exhaustion. Without getting too political, I'm thankful for the brave men and women on the lines doing the hard jobs of keeping people and property as safe as possible, and I blame politicians and arsonists and careless firestarters more than climate change for the terrible scale of this destruction.
Big plane(foreign aid) comes over, press takes a photo. Aussies flying, drop phoshek. True the town was on fire in spots. And maybe the woman who got splattered red in the crosswalk shouldnt have been there? 100% response was rah-rah-rah our heroes. I thought the photo was fake..but thats the Aussies I guess. As an end, at least the Aussies went on a fire fighting plane buying spree.
You could answer the question by mentioning a perspective on fire, or something like that...but that was american arrogance etc...probably a trump supporter. But the thing is, the answer is what does it mean to you? And thats their real answer. Some people think Runyon is hiking. I know Garcetti demanded that the outdoors were solely for..'exercise'.
So, what is the point of a professional firefighting service? Still 15.75 miles away. But for all you 'its not that bad cause you have the covid mask', its closed.
