2021-09-19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Department or somebody to have maybe some educational classes for some of these operators, I mean, a lot of these guys are younger – they may have been first time on a fire and, the only reason I know is my dad, as you know, fought a lot of fires in his days as an operator and there’s fire, I guess, knowing about fires, right, and how fires work, how fires move and all that stuff might be helpful for some of these younger guys ‘cause it can be a dangerous deal for some of these guys and I’ve heard the stories of people getting caught up and getting, you know, caught in fires moving very quickly getting around and, I just feel like maybe it would be beneficial for these operators just to have a quick course on fire and fire management and, you know what I mean… TR: Yeah… WC: …. just to know how to fight these fires and how fires work because, you know, the average Joe doesn’t know that. TR: And, you know, to that point Willie-Joe I think you bring up a real valid suggestion is - and maybe this would come under, you know, this commission could help host it or whatever, but invite everybody who was there and have an open invitation to guys with bulldozers that if you want to fight fires – and this would be kind of a civic volunteer deal – come and have a presentation about the safety of fighting fires cause it’s dangerous – we completely agree – but then also from the county’s standpoint we have some sort of set-up, sign-up that if you want to be part of a designated bulldozer operator for fighting fire going forward – if we do all that paperwork ahead of schedule and the county has the who to call or w hatever or if they show up this is such and such, OK, yeah, jump in I’m gonna send you here. So, again, doing that paperwork ahead of schedule so we have the people all signed up, ready to go and they have a level of education as they go forward. This is something that Chief Todd was talking about and he said there’s technology out there now that what happens is and I don’t know if it’s using – everybody has these cell phones but there’s an app that a bulldozer driver can activate and put it in his pocket and he’s just driving and there’s a GPS that’s tracking where he is so you have a command post that’s telling everybody at the command post where all these different people are and, but we need to have an education thing beforehand so we know how to do that – so that’s a good idea Willie-Joe and I’ll take that back to the Chief and talk story cause we’re not done talking about this, you know, the question, Brian, you asked about all the cost – the reason I know these is cause I’m trying to write something for our federal delegation but gathering all these costs is difficult because there a lot of estimations right now and we’re still probably couple weeks away from sitting down and looking back and say how can we do things better – communication number one – but I like the idea of training the dozer drivers. Any other questions? ?: I chime in on that dozer… 10