Cannoneer #4, your comment #3 is excellent. Several years ago there was a grass fire on federal land near Valentine NE. The locals rushed to the scene to put out the fire (before it could spread to private land) where they encountered two Govt employees sitting in a pickup truck, watching the fire and eating their lunch. Then they had to go to a meeting to plan strategy before attacking the fire. I believe in this case the locals were getting the fire under control (fighting grass fires is something all ranchers know how to do) when the Feds finally arrived on the scene. Anyway, the people fighting the fire were admonished not to fight fires again because they weren’t certified and that didn’t go down well at all with the locals. Not sure if they ever had to get certified or not.