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better is if they issued a warning that there may be an evacuation order coming – <br />‘because that would allow people to prepare themselves to get ready for evacuation. I <br />had a whole spectrum of comments on the evacuation from people saying that was real <br />simple, real easy, worked real well, no panic to people saying I didn’t want to evacuate, <br />other people saying they were afraid to evacuate, other people saying they should’ve <br />evacuated but they didn’t. And, again, we got to go back and have a talk story about <br />this. What one of the big problems with evacuation was the misinformation coming up <br />out about that evacuation. What could go down that Hulu Street access point – whether <br />or not the evacuation was reissued and all that – this was one of the reasons I <br />established early on in my office that we try to be very, very consistent and no <br />information came out of my office that number one I didn’t either personally verify – it <br />came from a very, very reliable source. Again, it all came back to the communication <br />and the communication we exchanged back and forth between everybody. Long story <br />short – at the end through all of this stuff what we learned – communication has to be <br />better. We had great communication between the county and the federal – the military <br />– we had some stutter steps with the state as far as firefighting. The communication <br />from the county out to our constituency – we need to improve that and there are some <br />things we need to change as far as handling overall. So that’s kind of it in a nutshell and I <br />appreciate you letting me give an overall summary on this – I’m wide open for questions <br />and however you want to handle this going forward. <br /> <br />AA: Any public or commissioners have any questions for Mr. Richards? <br /> <br />BL: Yeah, Brian Ley, District 4… <br /> <br /> Hey, thanks for all the information. Hey, do we have a total dollar amount on what this <br />fire cost the county? <br /> <br />TR: Yeah, um, we, you know, we have damage assessment and then we have actual out-of- <br />pocket assessment as far as what this cost. From the county out-of-pocket we know that <br />our bulldozer cost for the 10 days’ worth and those 27 some bulldozers is somewhere <br />around a million dollars. Out helicopter cost is probably and it depends on how that gets <br />handled because some of its military but I’m gonna guess it’s got to be at least half that <br />if not approaching a million – it just depends how that gets charged out. A lot of this <br />stuff is gonna be covered by FEMA but the designation for that FEMA support didn’t <br />come, I think, until midnight Saturday night, so there’s the first 36 hours probably that <br />didn’t come under that. As far as damage – and then we have all the firefighters <br />themselves. I am guessing – well, it’s better than guessing this is putting numbers <br />together from the Fire Chief – we’ll probably looking at a couple of million dollars’ worth <br />of fighting fire costs to us. How we get that funded there are some block grants that are <br />gonna help pay for that and it just depends on how that comes out. As far as damage <br />assessment overall – it would appear somewhere around 10 million dollars’ worth of <br />loss – fence line, pipeline, housing – all of that – coming through I think it’s estimated as <br />somewhere around 70 or 80 miles worth of pipeline of all different sizes, fence line – I <br />8 <br /> <br /> <br />