mustangpilot, if that is what you want to believe you do so, it must make you feel good at night. It has nothing to do with what we are talking about, but that's ok,
SASless, I think your points are scattered all over the place so that only you know what they actually are, except that you want firefighting jobs, so you believe that anything LA County does is wrong.
3,000 Black Hawks all over the world fly missions every day as they have accumulated 9 million hours. Three of these aircraft are fighting fires in LA County, who love the aircraft so much they bought the extra one after several seasons. Many more tank kits exist and are used worldwide to fight fires, and they work well.