Gov. Stitt said he wants to get rid of the Forestry Department after accusing the organization of mishandling the March Wildfire response in his weekly press conference on Wednesday.
Responding to a question posed regarding the firing of the department’s director, Gov. Stitt said that the state did not know the whereabouts of some of the assets meant for wildfire response.
“The fact that we can’t get answers about where their assets were around the state, is further proof that this is a deep-seated bureaucracy that is trying to protect their actions,” Stitt said. “If all the resources are spent, we get it. There were just a lot of fires going on, but that wasn’t the case.”…