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A DC-10 dumps fire retardant on Mandeville Canyon Road on Jan 11, 2025, during a battle to save the homes in the Brentwood community from the Palisades Fire that started on Jan. 7.
Explainer: What is it the red fire retardant dropped by planes to fight LA wildfires? Most destructive fire in LA history. The Pacific Palisades Fire, the most destructive in the history of Los ...
A Modular Airborne FireFighting System equipped C-130E Hercules from the 146th Airlift Wing is reloaded with Phos-Chek fire retardant to be dropped on the Simi Fire in Southern California on October 28, 2003. Phos-Chek fire retardants are manufactured as dry powders or as concentrated liquids and diluted with water prior to use. [4]
The smallest are the Single Engine Air Tankers (SEATs). These are agricultural sprayers that generally drop about 800 US gallons (3,000 L) of water or retardant. Examples include the Air Tractor AT-802, which can deliver around 800 gallons of water or fire retardant solution in each drop, and the Soviet Antonov An-2 biplane. Both of these ...
The DC-10 Air Tanker is a series of American wide-body jet air tankers, which have been in service as an aerial firefighting unit since 2006. [1] The aircraft, operated by the joint technical venture 10 Tanker Air Carrier, are converted wide-body McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 passenger jetliners, and are primarily used to fight wildfires, typically in rural areas.
The Pentagon sent C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to fight the LA fires. The water bombers drop nearly 14 tons of fire retardant in under five seconds.
The aircraft can release 3,000 gallons of water or red fire retardant in seconds. The fleet has already dropped more than 16,0000 gallons of suppressant. The fleet has already dropped more than 16 ...
The aircraft is rated to carry up to 19,600 US gallons (74,000 L) of fire retardant or water. It is the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world. [1] Initially developed by Evergreen International Aviation, the first Supertanker was based on a 747-200 (N470EV, tanker/tail number 947), but never entered service.