(An interesting letter to the Editor I copied. This could also be applied to CalFire refusing to use the DC-10 Supertanker in the BEGINNING of the San Diego fire (wind or no wind)when the fire could have been stopped quickly.--Ed Nemechek 760-246-8059--(ednemechek@verizon.net)).

Wildfire is a terrorist weapon

I'm glad the DC-10 Supertanker aircraft is finally being used to fight the wildfires in California but the criminal issue is and has been, for more than 12 years, that the U.S. Forest Service refuses to use it on federal land which forces California Fire firefighting agencies to wait for the fire to burn onto state property so they can use it.

Of course by that time the fire has developed into a massive planned uncontrolled holocaust destroying many homes and lives when it could have been stopped in hours if the U.S. Forest Service would only use the Supertankers in the beginning of the fire which they have refused to do for more than 12 years. It's outrageous to behold the current unnecessary massive wildfire holocausts in California being presided over by the U.S. Forest Service that still refuses to use the Supertanker aircraft that could have stopped these fires at the fires' beginning.

I think it's obscenely evil that the U.S. Forest Service is still deliberately refusing to use DC-10 and 747 type Supertankers to stop wildfires (for more than 12 years), fires that have reportedly destroyed over 30,000 homes and scores of human lives over this time. This apparent scorched earth policy of the U.S. Forest Service for over a decade, see: JBS. org (search: wildfire) must be stopped and the officials prosecuted. We have to force the U.S. Forest Service to protect our lives, homes, and forests, not destroy them. Six DC-10 and /or Boeing- 747 Supertankers will end all uncontrolled wildfires in our country but we must demand they be used by the U.S. Forest Service and more built to restore protection of our families and country. We must call every public official we can find!

Larry Hamblin

Retired firefighter