Utah Sen. Mitt Romney sat down Friday morning with state representatives of a federal wildfire and mitigation commission he helped establish to learn of problems and recommendations on how to help ease the pain and breadth of wildfires in the West.
The Deseret News was granted exclusive access to the briefing, which included Todd Adams, deputy director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Rich County Commissioner Bill Cox and Kathy Holder, the Utah State Hazard Mitigation officer under the Utah Division of Emergency Management.
"This is complex, more complex after reading this report," he said. "But from reading the report, we're going to need additional time and additional resources for the commission." But Holder said the problem with proactive pre-wildfire risk projects are the federal rules which often limit how agencies respond.
"We've got to approach this differently than we have in the past. And we have been fortunate here that while there's been economic impact and a lot of structures have been lost, we haven't had massive loss of life like they've had in California," he said. "But if we continue to have drought, which hopefully we don't, this is going to be a reality. We're going to have to deal with it.
"As you can see, there's no easy answer. It's not like well, we need to buy more airplanes. Or, you know, because you buy more airplanes, then we need more people to fly them and we need more mechanics and we need more people on the ground," Cox said.
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