When you're calling in C130 tankers and helicopters to fight a fire, it makes complete common sense to to have the air space closed.
Reminds me of the time a police officer was running after a much younger guy and I happened to be driving by in my pickup…
If you have help and it wasn't asked for, as long as you aren't endangering yourself or your help, common sense dictates you use that help.
Yep… I could see he was running out of steam and my step side made it a no brainer.If you have help and it wasn't asked for, as long as you aren't endangering yourself or your help, common sense dictates you use that help.
One could argue that when that police officer hopped in your truck bed, unless he was restrained in that truck bed, you guys were breaking the law
Of course you used quick thinking common sense given the environment
Or some people parking directly in front of a fire hydrant and not figuring out that the fire hydrant may be kind of important if needed...
The incident command system is set up based on occupational qualifications and training. An incident commander on a federal incident management team could be a local fire chief, a federal forester or firefighter, or a state forestry person. The jobs on the team are the same way. Annually the teams are assembled. When a local authority requests an incident management team, they sign a document with the incident commander giving operational control over to the team. When the team has the incident under control, another document is signed turning management jurisdictions back to the local authorities. During the ongoing management of an incident, local authorities attend daily strategy meetings to interact with the team.
And that's a condensed description of NIMS.
I wonder if what we're seeing here was news aircraft getting in the way.
Three states where hit. All where hit really bad. Florida and Tennessee where ready for it, and they have been very good at responding to the damage. North Carolina wasn't prepared, and their response has been very disappointing. FEMA seems to be getting the most blame for the incompetence of North Carolina leadership. The Governor of North Carolina is probably the person most responsible for getting things done in his state, and so far, he's not been up to the job.
May I ask how you came to the conclusion that Tennessee was ready for Helene and NC was not and how the reaction was different from the state government?
Keep in mind, there were 6 counties in Tennessee that were affected by Helene, total population of those counties combined around 275,000 people (total state population 7.1 million).
As a hospital we have backup generators which for decades tested weekly under load... now they are tested monthly because weekly testing was deemed a pollution source to eliminate.
I gather that the Baxter is much worse than that from my wife who was speaking with Baxter representatives last week. They were predicting years to get back to full production use to contamination from flooding. Imports will help, but aren't a full solution.
The prediction is by the end of the year supply should stabilize…
Yes they know. But ... my wife worked in the branch that prioritizes the many competing demands for funds, in state DOT. She says the funding and staffing requests from the DOT Maintenance branch always get put second behind the priority of spending gas tax money for new construction, now mostly widening for more traffic lanes. Because reducing congestion is what the motoring public is demanding of their elected representatives, and this demand filters down to the budget decision makers.
