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Debate Over Supertanker as Western Wildfires Burn

Debate Over Supertanker as Western Wildfires Burn

Company says USFS is keeping plane grounded with contract limit   Global SuperTanker Services, LLC/Facebook photo   KEITH RIDLER, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A giant aircraft that can fly high above oceans on intercontinental flights instead jets in...

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Arrest in Arizona Drone Interference

Arrest in Arizona Drone Interference

Suspect interrupted efforts to fight Goodwin Fire     SALLY HO, Associated Press A man accused of flying a drone over a major Arizona wildfire posted the aerial photos on his website, authorities said Saturday, leading to his arrest for hampering...

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Freezeout Ridge Fire, Longline Extraction

Freezeout Ridge Fire, Longline Extraction

Lessons from the medevac of a critically injured firefighter WildlandFireLLC - Emergency Longline Extraction on the Freezeout Ridge Fire, September 21, 2014, 1941 hrs. https://youtu.be/WrllMSTm23c Firefighter Injury, Freezeout Ridge Fire, 72-hr. Report Freezeout Ridge...

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Utah Wildfire Causes Hundreds to Evacuate

Utah Wildfire Causes Hundreds to Evacuate

750 evacuate from near the Brian Head ski resort   Associated Press - A wildfire in southwestern Utah has burned at least 1.5 square miles. https://youtu.be/nDy6vtOQ6jg Authorities hoped to have it 10% contained by Sunday. The fire has forced about 750 people to...

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L.A. Council Demands Answers on Helicopter Shortage

L.A. Council Demands Answers on Helicopter Shortage

Shortage noticed as crews battled two wildfires   ELIZABETH CHOU, The Daily News of Los Angeles Los Angeles city firefighters were short at least two helicopters Sunday and had to scramble to respond to a pair of brush fires that flared up at almost the same time...

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Report Highlights Tree Strike in California Tanker Crash

Report Highlights Tree Strike in California Tanker Crash

S-2T tanker went down while fighting a fire in the Yosemite National Park   JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 2014 fatal crash of an air tanker fighting a forest fire in Yosemite National Park came just after the pilot was warned to avoid a...

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Drops to Data: Making the Most of Our Aerial Fleet

Drops to Data: Making the Most of Our Aerial Fleet

The Aerial Firefighting Use & Effectiveness Program   On Final Productions - The intent of this training module is to deliver a message to the national fire community. The message includes a program that was developed to obtain data shedding light on possible...

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Video: DC-10 Over Georgia

Video: DC-10 Over Georgia

Aerial attack on West Mims Wildfire   Fox News - Raw video: Plane dumps thousands of gallons of fire retardant on West Mims Wildfire https://youtu.be/b2iseQTLJXI

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DC-10 Tanker Heads to Okefenokee Wildfire

DC-10 Tanker Heads to Okefenokee Wildfire

Wildfire has burned 220 square miles since April 6   RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Firefighters called up a giant air tanker to attack a rapidly growing wildfire that threatened homes Tuesday on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp near the Georgia-Florida state line....

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