#DixieFire Air tankers continue to reinforce the lines on the fire. Let’s keep these vital resources in the air by keeping all unauthorized aircraft including drones out of the Incident Temporarily Flight Restriction (TFR). @LassenNF @USFSPlumas @ButteSheriff #ButteCounty #PlumasCounty #LassenCounty | CAL FIRE/Butte County
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This fire retardant drop on the Buffalo Creek Fire in Mills County from July 14th gives us a close up view of why it’s so important that the public does not fly drones near wildfires. As seen in the video, both the lead plane, which coordinates and directs air tanker pilots where to drop the retardant with a white puff of smoke, and the air tanker itself, fly extremely close to the ground. Helicopters and SEATs (single engine air tankers) also fly with very precise and low flying maneuvers. Any
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Tanker 912 drops retardant on the #HouseDrawFire in #Wyoming. Fire retardant is dropped just outside of a fire to create a containment perimeter. PHOS CHEK retardant works in three ways: removing heat, coating the surface (so the fuel can't find oxygen), or by diluting the air near the fire. The retardant reacts with wildland fuels altering their route of decomposition in a fire so that they do not support flaming or glowing combustion. The rate of flame spread is reduced and can be dramatically
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Check out this incredible perspective of an air tanker dropping retardant while fighting the 20,000-acre South Valley Fire near Dufur. Video taken by farmer Will Neuberger. Here's the latest on the fire: https://kptv.tv/2vy6tIn | FOX 12 Oregon
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Here is a video of an air tanker retardant drop during initial attack on the #StraightCreekFire that was reported 2 miles north of the Parks Highway behind Skinny Dick’s bar on Sunday afternoon near Mile 325. Thanks to an early and aggressive aerial assault, the fire 🔥 was boxed in by retardant and bombed with water 💦 keep it at an estimated 20 acres until firefighters on the ground could engage it directly. This video was taken by Division of Forestry Air Attack Officer Tim Whitesell, whose j
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WATCH: A Cal Fire pilot indicates a target for an air tanker to drop retardant along the edge of the Caldor Fire, which has burned over 200,000 near Lake Tahoe. (Video: CAL FIRE Amador-El Dorado Unit) | KSL 5 TV
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