Governor Stitt Issues Statement on Forestry

Governor Stitt released to following statement in regards to the recent controversy surrounding the Oklahoma Forestry Service:

"Our local and rural firefighters are heroes. Plain and simple. While they were out fighting fires and saving lives, the bureaucracy within the forestry division's leadership withheld nearly 50% of resources from those facing the most dire fire situations," said Gov. Stitt. "I applaud the people in the Forestry division that are on the front line supporting our rural firefighters; however, as we have sought to get more information about what happened that day, leadership at Forestry has been unresponsive and has given us inconsistent information. This is unacceptable. They answer to the Oklahoma taxpayers, and those taxpayers deserve answers. This is the same runaround the bureaucracies and Congressional Democrats in D.C. are giving President Trump. I will continue to demand answers despite pushback from those who seem to want to avoid accountability and obscure the truth."