GEO TECH's most dramatically successful project to date was working on the fire in Los Alamos,  New Mexico in May of the millennium year.  For days this blaze was totally out of control, due to high wind speeds that fueled the flames with oxygen and velocity. This fire came within 1 mile of a nuclear storage facility when it is not unusual for fires of this sort to travel ten miles an hour. That fact was not widely reported on the evening news but by the late Peter Jennings on his news program "World News Tonight".  Mr. Jennings also reported that officials had lied to the media about how close the fire had actually come to the nuclear facility. For 24 hours GEO TECHNOLOGIES worked at reducing the wind speed in Los Alamos. Until then, firefighters had been unable to get aircraft near enough to try to control the blaze; a common problem with firestorms. In the first 12 hours we were able to get wind speeds down to less than half of what they'd been (60 mph). By then, firefighters were then able to get the blaze thirty five percent under control, and by 4pm MST GEO TECH had winds down to 10 mph.

When GEO TECH first heard about the blaze we called the New Mexico Environmental Department. We inquired about the blaze and how we could be of help. The man we spoke to identified himself as Ron Snells.  When we called the next day, we spoke to Ron Snettles,  a coworker of the person we had actually spoke to. He put Alex Mandiola on the phone who was really the person we had spoke to. Mr. Mandiola appeared unimpressed with the fact that, as we had promised, we had lowered the wind speeds enough for the firefighters to make progress. He excused himself saying he had a press conference with "the Secretary" and promised to call back. He never did. That was Friday, May 12, 2000.  We called back on Monday and the line was answered with a kind of whine like it had been hooked up to a fax machine or something.

Why would New Mexico's environmental department act childishly rude when we had helped them at a crucial time, and helped to correct one of their biggest bumbles?  If this is the common mindset of those entrusted to care for the state's environment,  it was no wonder that fires were burning out of control all over the state that year, and that this one, a

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"controlled" burn, cost 400 people their homes. It could have cost the rest of us our quality of life. Imagine living in an environment poisoned with radiation,  where everything you grow, everything you eat, is contaminated and poisoning you over and over again. The victims of Chernobyl know what this is like. The experience frightened us. The company took on the project out of sympathy for the people who had already lost their homes. It was only meant to be for a day. Despite having other plans, the technician on the project stayed and continued working through the following day. "I just had this strong feeling that I should keep working. Call it instinct.", the technician said who volunteered. Unknown to GEO TECH at the time was the fire's encroaching dangerously upon the nuclear storage facility there. This would not be reported until later that evening.