Yeah... Every time I hear "The government would never do that" I want to scream. Just a LITTLE time studying the history of just what governments HAVE ALREADY DONE would go a long way toward understanding just how low a government will go...
I think the locals are pretty pissed. No one wants to insult the firefighters, but even the young'uns around here have a daddy or uncle who was a logger or a miner, and they KNOW how we USED to fight fires... and they know it was a better way.