[laughter] >> barbecues all over. because wants some ribs? he had no idea. he that we just showed up. he had no idea. he had no idea and they call the dispatch. barbecue fire. return all responding units. it's pretty, some states are so honored but still mother nature sometimes when the devil high response she's already met. can't do anything. but for a fact when it if you wait for a fire to get big, so the protocol, i would have some

serious changes immediately, immediately. it was be a command center captain at all these dispatches. do you guys have a command center? anyone speak with we are a small volunteer firefighting unit. >> basically a gentleman just paces back and forth and who's listening and he can go yes, yes, yes, give them the world. a good example is in riverside county back when i was fighting fire and i was going back from a call and i see a plume of smoke and i know that area, i can get on the radio, she responds back, go ahead. send me the nearest i've fire engine, striking, whatever you

we have seen happen of this year backup at washington people were actually pleased. we see folks coming in, they are cutting down the trees. we got to clean up our yard. that's the yard.

those low-level watershed areas or homes in that area that's the first place that needs to be cleaned up but it's hard. where do you get the funding for that? we tell folks if they do of large properties go out and clean your homes and whatnot. and if you live in the urban interface or in the forest, you guys just have to come and realize that your house might burn your i tell people have a drawing of housed in your drawers. there are things we can do to stop her if she is very mad. so to do it on a large scale the united states is huge. all the resources you have, how do you do that? if you have a fire that started 20 miles away, it was a problem but it gets so much energy. now in today's it's at your back door and that's the part, how do you get folks in there? that's the part we are seeing

with the distressed force. i don't have an answer for that but i do have an answer for is a fire starts, get the right tools of there. we know that works. that's a fact. all the bases are about 99.9%. when you were in how many fires did you lose as a smokejumper? zero, right? we are about 99.999% effective. when we jumped a fire, things are out. so we know we work. so that's why i rob a lot of others and have no problem telling them that. you don't make the decision for us. you guys get home, you can google smokejumper user guide and always challenge in the fire chief in the fire service to anyone who's into command position or whatnot that he needs to read that and understand what we do. so if you guys are all chiefs in

the fourth, united states, i don't at all different parts of the united states and you get a fire and you were like i'm not calling a jumper, it's too dangerous. there's a bunch of rocks up there. you don't make that decision. we make that decision. when we get on station at 1500 we are trained to land entries come in water, and rocks, trained to land to do all these things. you just call us. we will give you handshake. if we can't let in the spot we are intended will find the airport, a road. we will give out of the plane. that's all you have to do is request us. all we want is a handshake and a ride tobacco. if you don't have a ride for us we will take your credit card and call and get picked up. they have folks in a forest service now is that it's too dangerous, we can have you guys

come that place is bad news up there. i have been witness. are you joking? or they say, percentage rate is too high. we get hurt all the time when we jumped out of the plane. very low percentage, today that it has been only six fatalities of jumped operations. do you think that's a good record? i can't even count how many jumps we currently have. it just shows the amount of safety. we are professional firefighters. i'm not a fireman, i make forest technician and the united states smokejumper. that's the government for you. >> have a smokejumper's been deployed to fight any colorado fires? >> yes. a natural resource. we can go anywhere in the pacific northwest. most of the stuff where there's

trees. department of interior and department of agriculture. so you have desert, sage and you have national forest. student so which fires did you help fight in colorado speak with i couldn't tell you. i wasn't personally there. when we were in the big fires the jumpers were coming in what we call overhead positions. half of these guys come by vehicle and they're going to fill in division, task force, operations, logistics. and these games are running around 50, 60, don't quote me. some of these teams have more people but they come in and manage these big incidents from flood, hurricane. so that's from eating all the troops, logistics if you get hurt, sleeping, everything. so you could be an overhead. we had one in colorado and every

do everything that has a list that shows us every base and for every jumper is that on these missions, little acronyms. so right now we have jumpers in washington. there's some in california doing all these different overhead stuff. so that are out there. remember, there's only 400 some left so you can't take them all in with them on a big fire because sometimes there's 5000 folks are more. one more question? no. ready for the test? its 100 questions and it is multiple choice. [applause] >> thanks, folks. >> is there a nonfiction author or a book you'd like to see featured on booktv?

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