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RCED-94-289R 1 (1994-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackqq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-258117 August 31, 1994 The Honorable Dianne Feinstein The Honorable Barbara Boxer United States Senate The Honorable Don Edwards The Honorable Carlos Moorhead House of Representatives During an 11 -day period in October and November 1993, 21 major fires ravaged six southern California counties. The fires burned about 197,000 acres of public and private land, destroyed 1,241 structures, caused 4 fatalities and 162 injuries, and left an estimated $1 billion in damages. In your joint letter dated December 7, 1993, you asked us to provide you with information on (1) federal airtankers' response to the fires, (2) the adequacy of funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service's (SCS) Emergency Watershed Protection Program to mitigate the damage from the fires, and (3) the use of California's FIRESCOPE Program as a national model for disaster response. In addition to these specific concerns, you also raised a general concern about the fire response efforts. We agreed with your offices not to address this broader subject because two other studies on the California fires--one by California's Office of Emergency Services, the other by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)--were also under way. These studies are intended to provide information about how the response was carried out and about mitigation efforts for future fire losses. We previously discussed our preliminary findings with your offices. We also agreed to summarize the final results of our work in a letter to you. The following is a summary of our findings. 'Firefighting Resources of California Organized for Potential Emergencies (FIRESCOPE) is a federal/state/local partnership that provides coordinated emergency management for firefighting and other emergencies. GAOIRCED-94-289R, California Fire Response

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