. >> thank you, senator carper. mr. currie, the gao has offered a number of reports on the emergency management efforts with topics ranging from federal cooperation, managed growing risks, to barriers with ng, and retaining federal wildlife and firefighters, and many others. so my question for you is, what are some of gao's top recommendations to fema to help be better prepared and respond to wildfires. how can the committee help, and what can we do. >> a couple of things. first of all, back in 2019, we issued a report on wildfire response. we were talking about how unique the response wasn't how fema programs were not necessarily geared towards that. fema developed a plan in response to some of my recommendations to try to change some of our recommendations to cure them towards wildfire. there was some progress there. there was just not enough. and a great example of the house and when i talked about. so fema provides short-term housing when the federal government gets response to a sawild fire. this is not really desi