With the immediate communications capabilities we have, if the drivers do not know, we can alert them of what conditions they're in and what's coming.

We are able to recreate these conditions -- high winds, icy roads, snow.

This type of weather does create a lot of chaos, a lot of contingency planning.

It's racial. The reason I say that is that, if you can get the other chiefs' resumes and look at them, you will find that they have had chiefs who have nothing like what Chief Stanford has on his resume.

The transportation network can't handle these schools.

He has rubbed shoulders with firemen from the hydrant-man right up to the ranks. To me, I think it's very unfair for them to skip over him to bring somebody in who knows absolutely nothing about the city of Raleigh.