Cal Fire's air tankers at Sacramento McClellan Airport running around the clock to fight Park Fire
MCCLELLAN PARK – The battle to put out the flames stretches from Butte County to Sacramento County, as air tankers perform a ...
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Here’s what it’s like to manage Cal Fire’s aircraft during a massive wildfire
Cal Fire had more than 60 aircraft within its firefighting ... This chart shows a 1,200-gallon heavy air tanker’s coverage length, in feet. It is illegal for any unauthorized manned or unmanned ...
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Border 2 Fire | Shift in weather, rain helping fight 6,600-acre fire as some evacuation warnings lifted
CalFire has built a list of things to have ready in case you ... rugged terrain as firefighters battled it on the ground and aboard air tankers and water-dropping helicopters, said Robert Johnson ...
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Firefighting Pilots Face High-Pressure Job: ‘It Gets a Bit Scary’
known as Cal Fire, says it has the largest fleet of aerial firefighting equipment of any civilian agency in the world. Two planes important to aerial firefighting missions are air tankers ...
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Everything you need to know about the water drops in California during wildfires
Marine Corps and Air Force until the 1990s. Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the terrain below. Read On The Fox News App The Grumman S-2T tanker, with its two turboprop ...