Tom Perry, Your questions infer that the Jet Comunity has some political force to get people elected. Jim might have PO'd 1/10 of 1% of the AMA membership here with his comment.

Ghost, The fact that fire departments attend Jet events is not good PR in my mind. It might make them safer but says that the need to have them is because of a high probabilty of fire. Besides the guys in those picture look like their at a picnic and not prepared to respond to anything (having put out many, many brush and structure fires I know what I am talking about). I'd guess they are more interested to watch the fire when there is a crash. The comment about having ATV's and extingiushers on hand is a much better idea.