Emergency Bupport Team, which has assets, and the rest. They get out to t critical time is the first couple of hour nize that. But those first few hours d make sure those assets can get out ther

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hope at the end of the day, after thi cause it's not mature right now, that we atic approach to whether it's a big bomb, have the kind of systematic approach and out there. It's not there. We want to get it ing to get it there, but it's not there.

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