How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies
How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies Rob Verger The most dramatic way to fight a fire is from the sky. An air tanker may fly about 150 feet off the ground at 161 miles per hour and can paint up to a mile-long line of retardant on the ground. A big helicopter could dump as much as 2,000 gallons of water to try to save a house. And smokejumpers fling themselves from airplanes 3,000 feet above their landing area below to snuff out a small fire in a remote area before it gets bigger. Right now, California is home to two historically enormous blazes: the SCU and LNU...
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