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The newly arrived US Supertanker, considered the largest firefighting aircraft in the world, joined the emergency operation on Saturday.

Hundreds more firefighters have been deployed to the Blue Mountains, to the west of Sydney, to work alongside the 1,000 already there, making it one of the largest firefighting contingents ever assembled in the state's history.

He said that the Skinner sale might be the largest auction of firefighting memorabilia ever held.

"Why have 10 or 15 fire chiefs, from 10 or 15 different departments, when you could simply have one chief and enhance efficiency?" said Augie Ghio, fire chief of the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District, one of the county's largest rural firefighting districts.

"We got the largest order in our company's history from China last year," says Stewart McMillan, chief executive of Task Force Tips, a 175-employee firm in Valparaiso, Ind .that makes firefighting equipment, including $1,000 variable-spray nozzles.

"They're very cost-effective," said Julie Hutchinson, a battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which has the nation's oldest and largest inmate firefighting program: roughly 4,000 prisoners and 200 crews.

At the same time, some radio talk-show hosts in San Diego have whipped themselves into a fervor as they accused Gov. Gray Davis of taking too long to ask for federal firefighting reinforcements, particularly the large military air tankers, generally converted C-130 transport planes normally used to fight fires on military bases.

Now the mayor should address the larger issue of how to make the department ready for a new era of firefighting.

The cost of the firefighting effort exceeds $10 million a day.

No one was wounded in the attack or the firefighting effort, officials said.

The cost of the firefighting effort has exceeded $67 million, a Forest Service spokeswoman said.