“The western fires are not stopping. They’re just getting bigger.”-James Casaus, Incident Commander
“If we don’t start managing our forests, the forests are going to start managing us. The fires burning across Montana are a catastrophe, and we need all available resources to combat this threat.”-Steve Daines, senator for Montana
On 13 SEP 2017, Montana’s Air National Guard deployed to fight at least 21 wildfires in The Treasure State.
Montana has so far spent $50-million USD in state taxpayer funding fighting fires!
NBCMontana: Wildfire update, 14 SEP 2017
On 09 SEP 2017, the Oregon National Guard continued another round of firefighting training conducted by the state Department of Public Safety. So far five groups of Oregon National Guard personnel have gone through the training. Oregon has so far spent 28-million state taxpayer dollars fighting 18 wildfires.
U.S. Army personnel chow down after helping to fight fires in Oregon, 10 SEP 2017
So far, the U.S. Forest Service has spent a record 2.1-billion federal tax dollars fighting wildfires across the western United States!
Video, Washington National Guard firefighting ‘mop-up’ ops 09 SEP 2017:
IDAHO CONDUCTS MASSIVE MAFFS TRAINING, IN PREPS FOR HOT WILDFIRE SEASON!
MAFFS : WILDFIRE SEASON 2018 GOING TO BE A HOT ONE!