mr. eisley, welcome. >> it's an honor for me to be here today. i've been involved with fire my entire life. started as a volunteer firefighter. on a management team 15 years. i'd like to think of myself as a student of fire. i've learned in southern california that we will always have extreme fire weather, we will always have a drought, but there will always be ignitions and they are plentiful and random. so the driver of the entire system is fuel. young fuel does not burn very well or very fast even under extreme conditions. old fuel conversely burns extremely hot and extremely well and extremely fast. for example, the origin -- age of the origin of fires in san diego county the past -- since 1950, the average age of the fuel where the big fires start was 71 years. we don't find any fire starting in fuels less than 20 years old that go to become major fires. next page. the fire problem in san diego county has gotten worse and it's kind of leading the nation again. california is not a good spot to be in the lead, but what we've seen in california

mr. eisley, welcome. >> items an honor for me to be here today.an honor for me to be here today. i've been involved with fire my entire life. started as a volunteer firefighter. i'd like to think of myself as a student of fire. i've learned in southern california that we will always have extreme fire weather, we will always have a drought but there will always be i gognitions and they are plentiful and random. so the driver of the entire system is fuel. young fuel does not burp very well or very fast even under extreme conditions. old fuel conversely burns extremely hot and extremely well and extremely fast. for example, the origin -- age of the origin of fires in san diego county the past -- since 1950, the average age of the fuel where the big fires start was 71 years. we don't find any fire starting in fuels less than 20 years old that go to become major fires. next page. the fire problem in san diego county has gotten worse and it's kind of leading the nation again. california is not a good spot to be in the lead, but what we've seen in california in the past 50 years is beco

mr. eisley to a certain extent have described the hazardous fuel reduction projects that are critical to protecting the watersheds that you have noted or just other areas the comment that you make that we know what it is we need to do and it cannot get to that. to the possibly three years to implement we talk a lot about this analysis paralysis around here where we have endless process and again a policy of we hope that there is not going to be a lightning strike that is going to bring about disaster here. can you speak to this? are we in a situation where we are more worried about checking boxes and making sure we have gone through a critical process, or are we acting with a level of urgency that i think you have heard from everyone here at this table with regards to these critical projects that will help us from the preventive perspective is a think we would agree that if we can prevent these in the 1st place we can get a hold or a better handle. what is what is our problem with the process that seems to be slowing things up? >> manager one of the issues we have dealt with in the past