All these elements that have been mentioned by horatio and currawong are exactly the point. These same problems of, lack of inital attack, adequate response size and working the fire at times when the conditions are in your favour. (ie crack of dawn the cool mornings when the humidity is at its best and the wind still at its lowest..) Are spread right across this country.
But no mater what state you are in, proposals to take the fight to the fire in such a manner at that time of the day are definately off the table.
We all know that the boys from the state air desk frequently pick through pprune looking for the little tidbits and gossip that inevitably pop up. Can you blame them really, locked up in an office all day, I'd do the same.
What I am getting to is, would it not be good to hear from some of these guys. The ones who fire the shots, book the planes, make the decisions, form the tactics. Just to hear from them to maby explain some of their decision processes, or considerations or even their thoughts on the current air attack policies. Maby even let us know where it is that these ideas of aerial attack are going wrong.