 Well, thanks so much for joining us. We're obviously a big basin state park, which is California's oldest park state park founded in 1902, about 800,000 visitors from California, the nation and around the world visit here every year. And this was the site of a mass evacuation as part of the the CZU fire complex in which our Cal Fire and partners, as well as our state parks team, evacuated, as I understand it, thousands of people from this park. And we're here today to share with the governor and our FEMA administrator the impact of this wildfire on the park, which as we understand is unprecedented in modern history. We're standing in front of one of the historic structures that burned virtually all of the structures in this park headquarters burned. And of course, we're amidst trees, some that are well over a thousand years old that have burned as well, but will likely remain resilient. And believe it or not, survive this. So I wanted to ask the governor, who's obviously led the response to the wildfire and will lead its recovery from the wildfire to share thoughts on the visit here today. Okay. And this is an opportunity for the first time publicly to introduce and invite to speak our new director of the State Department of Parks and Recreation, or what we know as state parks. Armando Quintero brings a career of service and leadership in parks and specifically over two decades at the National Park Service. He's also known in California as a leading environmentalist and an expert on natural resources and brings with him to this job tremendous passion that I know the governor shares to expand access for all Californians to our parks here. So without further ado, Armando, I'd invite you up and just to share reflections here as you take on this role, what this visit here means to you today. Thank you very much. And as you all heard, this is the first state park. And that was actually made possible through a partnership with the State of the Redwoods League. It was through their political pressure and engagement with leaders in California to create this as the first state park in California. Immediately after this park was created, there was a park bond that was unanimously passed by the voters. And it was a bond that set aside $6 million for purchasing new lands to be added to this park system. And an important note in that effort was that that money could only be spent if it was matched by philanthropy and the citizenship in order to make those land purchases. And so really at the very onset, these state parks have a DNA that includes partnership with stakeholders and with nonprofits. And that was, that was almost, well, just almost 100 years ago. And now we are at a turning point, having seen the devastation and the need to look at how we rebuild a park like this. As I mentioned earlier, it's really an opportunity to bring in all of the stakeholders, save the Redwoods League, Semper Virens Fund, and others to work with the state parks agency as well as the other partners here FEMA and other state agencies. To now take a look at the next 100 years. And together, I think we have an opportunity to actually show the world what the parks of the future could look like. As we look at climate change, the, you know, the need to bring together diversity in both the populations and also diversity in how we manage these landscapes. We've gotten a lot of learning, we've done a lot of learning in terms of how to manage landscapes like this. And again, this opportunity provides us yet another deep dive into how these systems work. And I do think that historically the world has looked to the United States and California for ideas about parks and how they are to be managed. And so we really do have an opportunity as a state, frankly, to lead the world in how we think about public lands, particularly in a moment where around the world, these landscapes have become essential landscapes. Thanks so much. Chief Boro, just give us an overview of where we are in context of the CZU fire, what's happening, not only in terms of the containment and the scope and scale of the CZU, how we're doing on the SCU nearby, and you up at the LNU yesterday and maybe introduce a few of the folks behind you, including who's kind enough to have been with us the last couple of days. Certainly, Governor, and thank you for the opportunity to speak. Also, I wanted to make sure and recognize our unit chief here from the Cal Fire CZU or Santa Cruz San Mateo unit, Ian Larkin, a long time resident and has worked his career here in these mountains and seen a lot over time, but nothing like this. And then the rest of the team of Cal Fires here with us for questions as well as our National Guard OES and CHP partners. What happened here, and I'm speaking to you from a perspective of the state wildland fire chief as well as the state forester. I hold both of those titles. I have had numerous discussions and calls from my state forester partners from throughout the nation just watching what's happened here in California and most of us have spent a career here in our states watching what's happening. And for me in particular, I've watched early in my career in Southern California, the mountain islands or the forest islands in Southern California be decimated by beetles and then wildland fires. Cuiamaca State Park had a similar event to this that actually consumed about 90% of all of the timber trees on that state park in Southern California. Then into the Southern Sierras with Beetlekill again 10 plus years ago into five or so years ago. And now we're starting to see these same kind of catastrophic wildfires and I'm saying catastrophic from an ecological perspective. Yes, these trees are going to survive, but there are ecological changes that are going to happen from this event that we haven't seen in European history on this land and probably hasn't happened to this scale for 500 or more years. So how does that reflect where we are today? And so back to your question governor kind of where we are with this CZU complex today. We had a conflagration of all these fires coming together over several day period and then a blowout of fire going in many different directions consuming a lot of ground. Well over 80,000 acres 85,000 acres and today we're at 72% percent contained thanks to a lot of hard work that has happened to make that a reality, but also a change in the weather. We really got blessed with some moisture from the marine layer coming in and then this fire while it is immense and is a very complex incident. We have two of the largest three fires in the state still burning right now in Santa Clara or the Santa Clara complex or SCU and the LNU complex up in Lake Annapa and that region. Those two fires are number one and two and they keep, I mean number two and three and they keep seesawing back and forth not to mention all of the fires we have on federal lands in the north and the south. There is more acreage burning in California right now at this point in the season than we have in records over the last 50 years. Maybe longer than that still doing some research so that's where we are governor and we're feeling good about where we are with this fire but it's going to be a long time recovery. Mark you want to just talk a little bit about last day or so and then at this feet just to make sure you don't have to speak but I just appreciate your theme. Alright Mark Gilarducci I'm director of the governor's office of emergency services. The office of emergency services role is really coordinating the overall states response to these disasters, these fires, it's the response and then the recovery in support of Cal Fire and support of state parks and support of our local government and being able to make sure we have enough resources and whatever is necessary not only to respond to the fires but then as we transition and pivot to respond to the recovery or engage the recovery. We've been doing that along the way with our FEMA partners and we actually are appreciative that the FEMA administrator is here from Washington D.C. Pete Gaynor and the regional administrator Bob Fenton many of you seen Bob and myself many times together on these events. We work very very closely aligned and really what we're looking at today is we're assessing what the damage is here of course and as previous speakers mentioned the idea is to rapidly clean up the park and clean up our communities, get individuals, get the park back into a way where they can continue to move forward in their recovery effort. So this is a little bit of a marathon not a sprint we're going to work through all this under the governor's direction, a state of emergency. We have all the assets of the state and now with FEMA support the president did declare a major disaster for this area and with evidence by the administrator being here seeing firsthand and collectively we're going to work together leveraging all the resources to be able to get ourselves back up on our feet. So we really appreciate them being here. Chris can I torch you a little bit? Don't worry this is not like a this is not a real press conference Chris even though I mean I want to say respect to the press that are here but there are only a few and it's not live and it's really for us and so you're here and it would be remiss because all of us are here and I know you a great deal of gratitude for the work you're doing and work you've done but I know this is a special place for you and you have a special and I think very heartfelt feelings about this very emotional and I just think it would be very impactful if you can just talk a little bit more about your connection to where we're standing quite literally and moreover about the devastation you've had experience over the last week. Thank you governor. Appreciate that and I appreciate everybody coming here. Yeah, I've been coming here for 25 years and there was a moment where as a volunteer I was able to work on a prescribed fire in this park 25 years ago that really cemented my commitment to wanting to work for state parks. I've worked in the natural resource side of management for most of my career here. I've spent a lot of time thinking about these trees and the effects of fire on it. Trying to do the best we can to manage these forests with prescribed fire with our sister agency Cal Fire we've done that for years. Seeing this event unprecedented the effects that we're seeing in this forest so significant to both our cultural history here and our natural history and my heart really does break. Not only for my staff who have given everything to get through this but for the people that I know how much this means to them the memories here the generational commitment that people bring their families here year after year I mean I've seen people come here and literally break down when the first time they've been here it's so incredible to them. We have people from across the nation across the world who've reached out to us since this event because it means something to them to see the change that's come here. But I know that we will get past that and I know that there's so much support out there both for this park for our state park system and for what it means to steward public land for the public's good in perpetuity. That means so much. It's such a good idea. Having our new director step in on day one here today and be confident that we're going to get through this. It makes me feel great. Having the governor, the resource secretary and everybody from Cal Fire and from FEMA here it really cements the fact that this is a very meaningful place to all of us and I look forward to working with everyone to find our way into the future so that we have a sustainable park for the future generations. So thank you. Awesome, awesome. Thank you Chris for everything you're doing and thank you for putting this in perspective and thank you all, all of you. Cal Fire behind me and folks rather in front of me. Cal Fire in particular for all the heroic work you guys are doing, all the mutual aid that's ongoing in this fire. We've got over 900 fires that have sparked just in the last few weeks in the state of California close to 16,000 firefighters currently out on the lines, 15,600 or so out in the lines working these fires. We've been on the phone with governors from all over the country. We now have 93 engines from eight plus states and National Guard support from additional states. Tragically we lost the life of a young firefighter yesterday from Oregon. Kate Brown, Governor Brown from Oregon was kind enough to reach out to me a week ago saying we provided some support but let me know if you need more support and we said we need more support. She not only sent down a number of engines, she sent down her son who was working the lines and fortunately it was part of the strike team where this incident occurred yesterday where the accident occurred. Fortunately her son's okay but our heart goes out to loss of a firefighter and others that were injured on that rig and it just reinforces how dangerous this work is and how heroic those men and women are that are out there on the lines doing kind of work. That all of us frankly have come to appreciate and admire and often just expect that we take times for granted that has really done everything we can to be here where we are today quite literally to save this majestic forest. And I want to say that save it because I know when you see these images you're filled with stress and pain and you're anxious about your own future, your own connection to your community, this state, our nation, the world more broadly because you feel like we've lost something forever. I want folks to know we come and go. These trees see around me, some of them have been up for 13, 14, 1500 years, been alive for 14, 1500 years. They have scars that make this fire look modest in comparison and yet they're still standing. It's a testament to Mother Nature's resiliency, it's testament to our resiliency and it's a testament to my optimism and my hope our optimism about our fate and future. Armando talked about this is an opportunity to think anew in terms of how we can reimagine a park system and this is a state that led the nation, this is a nation that led the world in stewardship and invested in generations by investing in place like this. And so our opportunity to re-establish that, to reinvigorate that mindset, that commitment, that devotion to this collective cause that transcends our time on this planet is very much alive and present at this moment. And so I want to thank the team assembled, I want to thank everybody for believing in the national park system, our state park system, in particular this, the state's oldest park and a big part of the movement that became the national parks movement all across this nation inspired, as I said, other natures around the world. Pericles wasn't alive when a few of these trees were born but I recall a wonderful quote from Pericles who said to the Athenians, we do not imitate for we are a model to others. And I say that in the spirit of what Tom and others were saying about the spirit of leadership as it relates to stewardship and that leadership and that commitment to stewardship to the environment, to Mother Nature, to leading by example is still not just surviving but thriving here in the state of California despite these historic obstacles. 1.48 million acres, that's as of last night, how many acres are burned here now in the state of California. This is unprecedented in modern recorded history to date. While we have 900 fires that have sparked 34 additional fires last night, most of them, in fact, not most overwhelmingly those fires are now part of stats, part of our past. We have a couple dozen that are still active that we're still working hard to mitigate the LNU and the SCU being two of the three largest fires in terms of acreage that have burned in the state of California, ongoing tough stubborn fires but real progress is being made in that 60, 70 plus percent range and containment and we're holding the line quite literally not just figuratively. Again, testament to Tom and his team and all the incredible mutual aid we're getting. That mutual aid and forgive me extending this is profoundly important because that mutual aid extends not just other states but the federal government. We have Pete here. It's a big deal, guys. I have the head of FEMA here in the state of California. He was just out there battling floods in Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere. He's dealing with more challenge, more stress and probably any previous FEMA director in modern history as we're dealing with things that happen every 500 years. It seemed to happen every five years. Things that happen every 100 years seem to happen every damn year. And so I just want to thank Pete and his team for being out here. And Bob, the regional director for their incredible steadfast support of this region, the state. We simply could not do it without them. We don't have to ask anymore. The answer seems to be yes before we even ask the question. That's how strong this partnership has been and I just be remiss not to say that in front of them, not just over press release or over the media. Let me just close by making one additional point and that is the spirit Chris's comments. It's remarkable how many people quite literally that saw images of what you see behind me reached out directly to say, what can I do to help? How can I give back? I remember being there as a kid. I remember like yesterday I was there with my grandfather. I remember bringing my own kid out there to the amphitheater and seeing their connection wasn't intellectual as visceral. They were connected in a congruent way to Mother Nature of the Earth and they became little environmentalists. I didn't have to say another word because of that experience. What can I do to contribute to the cause of rebuilding? It's been extraordinary, that sentiment and that commitment. And so again, it's just in the spirit of optimism. I say that because it's just a demonstrable proof point, a demonstrable example of why we should be optimistic about our capacity to recover and be resilient and use this as a teaching moment. Use this as a moment where the scars of previous moments are clearly marked in trees behind me that was stood fires over millennial ago. But a teaching moment to remind people of how vulnerable we are and what we mean in the larger construct. And that is to put our stuff in perspective. All our differences, our angst, our feeling of inadequacy or perhaps our feeling of significance in perspective when you contextualize what Mother Nature has provided in all her bounty. And so I thank you guys for coming out and I again appreciate the opportunity to be here with so many special folks including Wade Crowfoot, our resource director, has just been doing an extraordinary job. So with that we're happy to answer questions on this topic and then I will let these poor folks go so you can talk about A, B, X, Y, Z, S, B, this, Y, and sort of bring us back down to Earth. But just as we're right here, wondering if you guys could just shed a little more light on kind of the possible timeline for bringing the public back in here and the timeline for reconstructing some of these buildings and things like that. And if you could also just give us a sense of how much of the old group around the park. Yeah, great questions, JD. Thank you. Chris, you want to help with that? Sure. Thank you. So from what we've seen right now and what we expect to see in the coming winter, some of the trees that are still standing right now are definitely going to come down. They're fire weekend. We've had two weeks of burning that are going to have effects. And so the idea that we could bring the public in safely in the next year is unlikely. I don't want to really give you guys, I don't know after that, but I would say at least a year we're going to have, we have to probably let Mother Nature a year from now. Yeah, I mean, that's as far as I could go out. But the hope would be that wind stress on these trees will let us know which trees are going to make it further than a year. What comes down will be able to clean up once we get the tree hazards safely removed. We're going to have a fair bit of debris flow and runoff. We probably have a lot of hydrophobic soil that was caused by the intensity of the heat of the fire. And so runoff is going to affect our drainages. It's going to affect our trail system. It's going to maybe affect the road system. So I'd say at least a year before we can assess that and know when we can bring the public back in safely. You were talking about how, you know, your connection to this park started 25 years ago with a prescribed burn. And that's a very hot issue. No comment, you know, this is a question for anyone who wants to answer it, I guess, but hopefully the governor too. What's the future of prescribed burning in California? How much more of that do we need to do? Are you taking a look at getting more of that done? Yeah, let me ask Chief Porter answer that. He's quite literally made a career around doing not just answering the issues related to that topic. But I'll just reinforce and remind you we did 35 high profile projects, vegetation, forest management projects that focused on not just areas of high concern but equity areas of concern that actually had impact on vulnerable communities. Some 200 communities that were represented in our assessment to prioritize 35 projects, including one up here on Highway 17 that we completed over the last year. We announced just a few weeks ago a new partnership with the U.S. Forest Service to match our commitment over half a million acres a year. So we'll be doing a million acres a year in partnership with the federal government to support our efforts. Not only in the 3% of forested property or rather forested land that the state owns in California, but the 50 plus percent, 56 to 57%, the federal government is responsible for. For new partnerships, reinvigorated commitment to vegetation management, forest management, that includes prescribed burns. New partnerships that we've advanced and we're moving away from the old paradigm that either or paradigm and really I think building an area of some collaboration and recognition that prescribed burns need to be part not just of our past over 100 years ago, but need to be part of our future and with that maybe Tom you can fill in the blanks with a little bit more specificity and scientific know-how. Well sure and just kind of speaking in general on a statewide perspective, we are building toward a 500,000 acre number on non-federal lands. Our federal partners are working toward a 500,000 acre. By and large we're looking to do most of that with prescribed fire. Prescribed fire is the most ecologically appropriate and sensitive tool. It in fact is actually the cheapest tool when we do it appropriately, do it at the right time of year. We will be putting smoke into the atmosphere but not like the smoke we've been seeing from these events. It's not all coming in 15 days. It'll come over an entire year and that's something that we need to do annually. And Secretary Crowfoot is here as well but we have a shared stewardship agreement just signed within the last month with the Forest Service. Thank you Governor for signing that and Secretary for shepherding that through. But we have the mechanism to do this on a statewide basis in conjunction with our federal partners in ways that we never have before. And so that partnership is there. We are committed to doing more and more of prescribed burning across the landscape in different eco types to ensure that we preserve California's natural plant communities and watersheds, but also appropriately manage for catastrophic events that we can avert in the future. I might just add, I'll answer your question, but I add that these partnerships extend to tribal communities. California tribes have been introducing prescribed fire on the landscape for thousands of years and in many cases were legally prohibited from prescribed fire when European settlement arrived. And so we're actually at our agency learning from these tribal communities and their traditional practices about how to improve prescribed fire practices. And then as I think Chief Porter would tell you regarding the work that we need to do in the coming year and years, you're right that building resilience, building forest health across millions of California acres will take years to accomplish. But we will bring the urgency this coming year to this effort that Governor Newsom referenced last year. And that is we've identified high priority projects to protect communities and make forests more resilient. And you will hear more in coming weeks about these projects that the Cal Fire team will prioritize getting done this winter in preparation for next fire season. I think, Tom, you've got over 500 that you've lined up, right? Yeah, we have 500 on a list. Yeah, just maybe just quickly. Sure. So we have been building our inventory of projects and getting them through various levels of CEQA review that are required for different types. And we have over 500 projects statewide that are on that list ready to go. So we are in the process of sorting those and making sure we identify priorities that will meet Governor's intent of vulnerable community protection and then other resource means as well. As far as the timing for getting this done, each year we're getting more and more work done. We're getting more areas where we have prepped them and they're ready for the use of prescribed fire. And some places you just can't put prescribed fire on the ground right here today. You need to do a lot of work before you can get to that. So as far as the 500,000 acre treatment for the state and private lands, we're shooting for a target of making that by the end of 2023. So we're getting close. And we are about 75 to 80% of the way there this year to getting to that annual number. Forest service is about the same. And their commitment of MOU is for 20 years. And one of the things we're doing is we're not waiting around for the usual environmental process. And I say that as an environmentalist. In this context, it could take literally over a decade. We actually did one of our sites up near Placer County up near Auburn. That we had on docket for 10 to 15 years from now by the normal regulatory process. We're able to fast-track and get that project done last year. What we did is I signed a declaration of emergency before the emergency took shape in order to allow us to fast-track the movement on these sites. And so it gives you a sense of the urgency we put in place last year in the seriousness of purpose. We're going to be advancing this and over the course of the next few years. We just did, Cal Fire just got 830 new seasonal positions. We did that just 60 days ago. 830 of the 858 actually have been hired. We did an emergency appropriation, $72.4 million to move forward to get that seasonal workforce. I also added over $85 million to the baseline budget that was just approved a few months prior to get baseline ongoing. 24-7 firefighters in Cal Fire, a historic amount of money in the last 3-4 years in terms of new equipment and new commitments along the lines of what we just expressed on vegetation and forest management. So we're doing more than we've ever done and we'll continue to do even more still. We were tested by 130-degree temperature and tested by this heat dome over the entire west coast of the United States and something unprecedented in our state's history. 14,000 lightning strikes and as a consequence our mutual aid system was tested. But we are committed to long haul and I'm committed individually to continue to build despite historic, well close to historic budget shortfalls. We were able to still make historic investments in Cal Fire as a priority of this administration to keep people safe. We are and we have been so it has been an historic year in many ways, whether it's wildfires in California, hurricanes, we're going down the alphabet in a rapid pace or COVID-19. It continues to occur. We are fully funded by Congress and the administration and the disaster relief fund right now $60 billion that we can use towards COVID response, loss wages program that the administration instituted and obviously disasters that have happened and any future disasters that may happen. So I'm fully confident that we have all the resources that we need and this is just not about FEMA. This is really about great partners. So response recovery works best when it's locally executed, state managed and fairly supported. And we're here today to support the state of California and this disaster and give them all the support they need and we'll stand by the governor and his staff until the disaster is behind us. Well, I'm not sure about that, but the president just approved a major disaster for California. So that's his commitment to California and every other disaster around the country. I just let me stand appreciation of the president for signing that disaster declaration as quickly as he did. And for all what we refer to as FMAGs that have been done, Bob and Pete and his team done a remarkable job. So, you know, all of that to me is tangential. The substance is what really matters. The partnership is real. And by the way, just so you know, you may have heard Pete reference lost wages. Pete's now responsible for those unemployment checks FEMA. So he is also responsible for the $300 supplemental checks that we're going to be getting out in the next week or so. So thank you, Pete and FEMA for that as well. I don't know that we did, but if you really want to, you guys can you're all excused. Yeah, get the hell out of here. If I were you, just leave me with my trees. The burnt out trees. Yeah. I don't see that's necessary. If we find it's necessary, specific issue is necessary. I'll consider it. But right now we are looking forward to working through hundreds and hundreds of bills. And I'll be making decision on where we stand on many of those bills. We've been part of the process of of mending number of bills and other bills were amended last minute. We'll take a close look and make determination of where we stand on many of these last night close to midnight. I did sign one of those bills on evictions. It's probably important to get it done by midnight so that we can impact and mitigate prospective millions of Californians being vulnerable to eviction notices this morning. Would you consider a special session though for prison reform or sorry, police reform or employment benefits or running out and families around the state are approaching financial disaster? I always consider a special session as needed. So I mean that's it's always as it has needed. It's very easy simple process to do. So we'll consider that as needed $300 going out. We're just setting that system up. We thank FEMA for their support and those dollars going out around the 10th of this month $300 supplementals, billions of billions of dollars. I'll be distributed over the next few weeks with the support of the federal government on the unemployment insurance side. Number of police reform bills did get through. I've landed on my desk. We'll take a close look at those. We worked on a number of those and a lot of bills didn't make it through across the spectrum of issues. And we'll adjudicate those and work through where we stand on those and work with the legislative leaders to dust things off. The legislative session may be over. We're just starting. I'm not taking a break. I'm not taking a minute off. We're still working all the issues all the efforts that need to be advanced to keep people protected in the state educated in the state healthy in the state continue and I'm already working on next year's budget. We're working with agency directors, department heads and over the next few weeks be making very substantive decisions about where we are on our budget next year and hoping the federal government gets a new cares act and are done. So that will substantially aid our efforts in that space. Yeah, we're taking a look. I've been working on that issue since I was lieutenant governor, been very active in that space active on prison reform active working with our partners at Cal Fire, the union and others. I'll take a look at the details of all these pieces of legislation, but that's an area long been an area of interest to me and and purpose and and something that I look forward to to reviewing the bill itself. We have a lot more work to do in that space, regardless of that bill, and I'm committed to that process as well. Well, we passed 18 bills last year, just because you pass a bill, you don't solve a problem. So just passing a bill alone is not going to quote a solution. We got a lot of work to do in that space. It's going to take us decades. We put an historic amount of money last year into tax credits and infrastructure grants put on press about our money and the homeless issues. I'm very proud of the work that we did in the budget work that was also helped advanced in the legislature on project room key, which now we're referring to as project home key is we're purchasing these assets to get folks permanently off the streets tens of thousands of people, some 22,000 people have gotten off the streets since project room key. All that's been happening in the last few months. And we still have a lot more work to do in that space and a lot more work to do in housing. But we, we've been, as you know, challenged by this pandemic that has put a lot of things in perspective. I will put though this in perspective today, we're at 4.9% positivity rate, seven day period, 5.3% over 14 day period, some 3,712 positive cases today. It's one of the lower end of the numbers we've seen sometime still encouraging signs, 24% decline in two weeks and hospitalizations, 20, roughly 24, roughly the same in ICU over the last two weeks. So we're making real progress. That's going to aid and vet our efforts to reopen our economy to recover, be more resilient, moving out also help us with housing starts and our efforts on homelessness as well. Well, I don't look at it negative terms. I look at it more opportunistic terms. Opportunity and new to bring someone is quality and insights demonstrable in terms of his career, not just his resume, particularly his work at partnership with UC Merced. You know, I were just talking about the opportunities to help new partnerships, regional partnerships with our UC system, long overdue at a different scale. His focus on equity enlivens me, should enliven you. This is the most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy. We need to focus on equity, equity of access to parks like this can change the director of a young person's life. That's not afforded all our diverse communities. So he's here for a reason. He's here for a purpose. And I don't know if there's greater purpose and reason to be sworn in the day that we're here today that sort of underscores. I think his weight of responsibility. But my enthusiasm in terms of his capacity to deliver on that. But was there a precipitating event that led to... The precipitating event is I've been active looking to get someone who's committed to all of the things that I just advanced. And so that's why he's here. And I have nothing but good things to say about the former director. In fact, working right now to help her with her next career path too. It's just an opportunity to bring in new people. I've only been governor 20 months, less than 20 months. So I'm just getting started here. We're bringing in a team. We're going to be hiring folks. And so expect more decisions. It's kind of exciting. We do for like an active fire coming for an earthquake. Are you considering any kind of statewide smoke alert system? Well, we have that. But to the extent my health director is not here. He talked about this a couple of days ago and refer back to the press comments we had. I think either it was Monday or Friday. He talked in more specific terms about some of those advisories. I'll provide you a little more contemporary information on that building on what he advanced last week. I think, I mean, it is emotional. And if this is not a gut punch, then you're not fully conscious as a human being. And in another reminder of how important it is to be stewards and how important it is to have a sustainable mindset. Not just a situational one. And what I mean by that is we're so struck by the moment who's up, who's down, who's winning, who's losing, who's here, who's not. That's a situational mindset. And frankly, most of the world's problems come from that mindset. This is all about sustainability. And when we talk about sustainability here, you're talking thousands of years, not just dozens of years, even hundreds of years. And so I think that's a healthy thing to bring that mindset and the work we're doing, long term, not short termism. And so to me, that connects with not just the head, it connects with the heart also connects, as you say, with, you know, childhood memories. These are indelible. We're talking to Mark Giladucci who grew up in and around here and was just sharing the same emotional connection to the site and his memories. But you don't ever, you know, you never lose those memories as a child. You just remember the architecture of the old cabins. You remember the old bear signs. You remember the sounds of smells. You remember the canopies. Of course, you lose that. You lose a little bit of those memories. And those, you know, memories in this respect are seared in a different construct than they were as a child. But they're precious and they're magical. And his life at the end of the day is about magical moments and people that spend time places like this experience those magical moments. And so this is just a reminder of how we need to give more people to be stewards, more people to feel truly connected, particularly folks that live a few miles away that don't even know this exists. And if nothing else, this will remind them how blessed we are and how precious life is and how extraordinarily precious a magical forest like this is as well. One more thing. The new four-tier color code system that people could understand where they weren't as confused as we saw them be. Why don't it take this long to get to that kind of system? By implementing it, are you admitting that some counties were allowed to reopen too quickly? We made the commitment in partnership with the counties, with our federal partners in recognition of the importance of more clarity, not just for the counties, not just for health directors, but more importantly for the public and for industry leaders. We did all that in partnership in an iterative process. It's a dynamic process. We haven't dealt with a pandemic like this in our past. There was no rule book. There was no playbook. There was no manual that said, here's what you're doing. We learned from 50 other states. We learned from different nations. We learned from our own experiences. We bring all that to bear in a constant effort to be dynamic, to meet the moment and be more flexible in our approach and attitude. And that's what created the energy to put together the new tiered strategy. And to the extent that we'll learn from this experience over the next 60-90 days, I imagine we'll try to tweak that as well moving into January, February, March. Thank you all. Thank you.