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A post shared on social media purportedly shows a video of a helicopter lifting water out of the Pacific Ocean to fight the current fires in Los Angeles. Verdict: False The video dates back to 2019.
The introduction of Fire Hawks brought another major innovation to Cal Fire’s operations: The ability to fight fires at night. Cal Fire Hawk firefighting helicopters are parked at Cal Fire ...
The office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a post on X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter, that it was in "close coordination" with CalFire after the helicopter crash ...
While fighting the three-acre (1.2 ha) Broadway Fire near Cabazon in Riverside County on August 6, two helicopters (a Bell 407 and a Sikorsky S-64E) collided in mid-air. The Sikorsky helicopter landed safely, while all three occupants of the Bell helicopter—a contract pilot, a Cal Fire division chief, and a Cal Fire captain—were killed.
Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal. A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in ...
The idea of fighting forest fires from the air dates back at least as far as Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen's observations on seeing a blaze when overflying the Santa Lucia Range, California, in 1929. [2]: 142 A wide variety of terminology has been used in the popular media for the aircraft (and methods) used in aerial firefighting.
A video shared on Instagram purports to show firefighters saving various animals from the recent fires in California. Verdict: False The video, which was originally shared on Instagram on Jan. 11 ...
The possibility of using aircraft for fighting wildland fires in California was first proposed in 1931 and again in the late 1940s after World War II. In 1953, the Nolta brothers of Willows, California proposed using their agriculture spray planes for fighting brush and grass fires. During the four fire seasons from 1954 to 1957, CAL FIRE used ...