[AtlasBarfed]

I hope not to trivialize things too much, but firefighting almost seems like a RTS game, especially if one can get drones/satellite/etc to provide real time updates to the "game map".

Even if there is the command chain that disrupts direct communication with your "units", the communication down the chain could probably be automated from the interface.

[Aloha]

They use helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as firespotters, its not a command and control data problem, its not even getting data out to the units problem, its an interop problem.