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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 engines, is the agency’s workhorse and ...
The funding will provide federal reimbursements for up to 75% of “eligible firefighting costs" incurred as California seeks to shore up its firefighting force and put out the wildfire.
A typical configuration for the helicopter was a Helitack Fire Captain in the copilot's seat and a Helitack Fire Captain plus six fire-fighters in the passenger compartment. The water bucket was replaced in 1984 with a newly designed Canadian 324-US-gallon (1,230 L) Bambi bucket. In the mid-1980s, fixed water dropping tanks were installed on ...
A helicopter bucket or helibucket is a specialized bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting. The design of the buckets allows the helicopter to hover over a water source—such as a lake , river , pond , or tank —and lower the bucket into the water to refill it.
Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word fire stencilled on them. Often they have a convex, protruding bottom. The rounded bottom results in a strong, directed stream of water when the water is thrown at the fire. The rounded-bottom bucket is far more efficient in launching the water at the fire than a flat bottom bucket.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 8: A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire while it burns homes at Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California ...
A bucket brigade or human chain is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next. The method was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze.
A firefighter works near the remains of a home that was destroyed in the Mountain Fire on Nov. 8, 2024, in Camarillo, California. Fueled by strong winds, the fire burned across more than 20,000 ...