DARTS   aircraft and crews will respond to National disasters. DARTS is the fastest, safest, and most cost effective option for transporting equipment and first responders by air.

Wildland fire crews have many difficulties to tend with when responding to disasters, several of them are the combination of work rest rules, and the distance needed for wildland fire crews to travel. This combination has dramatically increased the time needed for the crews to travel from their home base to where their services are needed. Fire crews have indicated to DARTS management, it has taken them up to 3 days to travel to California from Colorado. Prior to the work/rest rules it would normally be a one day event. So because of the need for increased safety, the response time for fire crews has increased considerably. DARTS will lessen this response time by days, and not conflict with wildland fire crew�s work/rest rules, and be able to transport the crews for a cost far beneath any other option.

SAFE AND FAST   The need for DARTS to provide safe and fast transportation is also needed within all the emergency response crews DARTS has contact with, which are Wildland fire, Mountain Rescue, FEMA, Red Cross, and Urban Rescue teams. Because of the distance each team needs to travel, and the difficulty posed by travel within these vast regions, many search and rescue operations are conducted without the people needed to ensure success. This limits the success rate of the operations and the amount of lives that can be saved. DARTS has the personnel, equipment and experience to increase the rate of successful missions by transporting the EMS personnel to where they are needed quicker and safer than any other option.

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