"At some point where there is no more firefighters left, we can call on the military. And they come in the battalion size outfit, fully contained, 500 people."
Mostly, in this part of the world here in Arizona, and in New Mexico, we use National Guard for ground transportation, and always have, and it works out really slick, 'cause they have a bunch of [six bodies?] and so on that we transport troops in. And that's pretty common.
When the military comes in, there is a draw-down nationally to where at some point where there is no more firefighters left, we can call on the military. And they come in the battalion size outfit, fully contained, 500 people. They're not a full twenty crews because they have a lot of overhead with it—you know, truck drivers and (unclear)—but you get about twenty crews out of a battalion. And they're trained as what we'd call Type II crews. Again, they are not called in until all the other firefighters, you've drained the system and there aren't any left. I think last year we used four or five battalions of military—something like that.