Um, tell everybody out there a little bit about you and how it is that you came to be in this position and, uh, uh, what your day-to-day job looks like with regard to emergency management, and then I wanna get into, you know, really all of the things that we do at the Butte County Sheriff's Office surrounding this particular area.

Well, I've been with, uh, the sheriff's office for a little over 21 years.

I started, uh, in corrections my first few years, then I went to the police academy, went out to patrol, um, numerous assignments, uh, CSI, hostage negotiations, um, general felonies to detective.

Then I promoted to sergeant, was a sergeant for a few years, then I promoted to lieutenant into this position when you promoted me to lieutenant.

Right.

And when that happens is when the chaos ensues, because people are trying to get out.

They're trying to not die, and they're gonna be doing whatever they can to get out of there, and that's very, very hard to control.

And all it takes is one wreck, one car to run out of gas, you know, anything like that becomes an enormous problem where we can't even get to sometimes because of the traffic.