there is not a day that goes by that i don't think of the loss of tony valerio.partment and with assistance from an external investigation, there were a number of areas that we found could have been improved in terms of -- it is always a risky environment when we are responding to fires. in one of the areas that we honed in on was a failure of the accord on the -- the court on the portable radios of our members. so what i was surprised to learn is there is no standard related to the ratings of the makeup of the radio. so it took over five years but there was a committee. we asked the national fire protection association to examine this come up with the standard if they thought one was needed. they basted on the line of duty death of our members. and someone that had participated in our department on the safety investigation and taken an interest -- and i believe is a director of training at time. i had put him and suggested he be part of this committee. and as you see, it has not fully been adopted. it has been an open comment. as it says at the beginning, for th