I'm going to have to move on to my next question because I only have two and a half minutes. It would seem reasonable that communities know what the plan is to respond to disasters.
Rail companies have told us they depend on local first responders. In our region, many of those first responders are volunteer fire departments. Rail companies depend on them to respond to incidents involving dangerous goods in their communities.
This is my question. Given that local governments support these small fire departments using property taxes, is it fair to give these volunteers this responsibility and expect them to protect a multi-billion-dollar company? Is that the right chain of responsibility? Rail companies have their own police departments. Why don't we require them to have their own fire departments as well, and have that capacity to respond to disasters in communities?