At a meeting Friday among officials of the United States Forest Service and the city parks department, it was suggested to Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, that a specialized — or hotshot — crew come in to help with damage recovery.
"While resources are limited, parks staff, both regular maintenance staff and specialized natural resource crews, have invested thousands of hours of work to make the park cleaner, safer, more attractive and ecologically healthier," Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, said in a statement.
The big idea is somewhat disgraced, now that we have been through several financial manias, but Google is tweaking it by seeking the wisdom of a very specialized crowd not a motley crew of anybody.
The worker was in serious but stable condition after emergency crews using specialized tools dug him out, and a doctor attended to him while he was still in the rubble.
All had been with him for five to 10 years, and he lost half of his budding crew, a highly specialized team that grafts trees.
The hulls had been milled from custom composites, and the boat had been rigged with enough high-tech electronics to satisfy James Bond: GoPro cameras to document the swell of every wave, G.P.S. equipment to monitor distance and speed, and several specialized tools to help the crew gauge the constantly changing movement of the wind.
They included the consolidation of all crane regulations under a single rule and a requirement for 30 hours of specialized training for some jumping-crew members.
Firefighters paused for a moment of silence Wednesday to honor the 19 fallen firefighters, as their two Hotshot buggies — specialized vehicles used to ferry crews into fires — were driven from the fire scene in a slow procession back to Prescott, about 45 minutes away.
Conversely, an engineer who can manage contracts, logistics, multiple service companies, the detailed workings of specialized pieces of equipment and a crew of 50 is invaluable.
These developments underscored how the fluid nature of the modern battlefield, one without clearly defined front lines and full of fleeting targets, required the Pentagon's most specialized attack plane, and its pilots and crews, to make day-by-day and even minute-by-minute adjustments.
