Everybody told them, hey, don't do this burn, it's going to go out. They said, no, no, no, we have a lot of timber that has to go. They lost control. Now this is the last week we lost the North Rim Lodge because of the same kind of analogy. So you can't tell me that there doesn't exist these capricious nature of regulations throughout the government. I think what Mr. Whippen's doing is just saying, listen, we want to identify all these different aspects. (05:51–05:58)
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Asserts that the North Rim Lodge was lost due to a similar decision-making process regarding fire management.
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