By
Howard DeLaCruz-Bancroft,
I
apologize but I am reworking this current story and for the next
couple of days it will only have these few summary paragraphs.
However the following is the crux of what I hope to accomplish.
Two
simple policies of the US Forest Service (USFS) need to be changed.
1.
The rest of the world and other federal agencies mandate direct
suppression and attack on fires as soon as possible and so should the
USFS follow suit. We don't need to manage fires we need to extinguish
them.
2.
USFS policy does not allow gel based fire retardant's to be used in
larger multi-engine air tankers. This prohibition needs to be
removed. Even the Bible seems to add wisdom to this issue in Luke
5:38 it advises to put new wine (gel based retardants) in new
wineskins (planes). My take if the USFS is getting new planes then
don't use old retardant that is toxic and ineffective.
In
my second part of this expose to be released later, I want to show
how other current policies, practices and procedures hinder the US
Forest Service from acting quickly and effectively in firefighting.
