Water Bombers Attack Western Fire
Saturday, September 14, 2013 @ 5:08 AM
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Puffs of smoke appear over College Heights hills Friday evening. Photos 250 News
Prince George, B.C. – The sunny, hot weather may be great for extending the summer well into September but it carries some risks as well.
It’s a good reminder that forested and bushy areas are extremely dry and prone to catching fire without too much difficulty. Looking toward College Heights from
Parts of the bowl Friday evening it appeared that smoke was coming from just up the hill. However, our intrepid photographer found, upon driving up that way, that the fire was more like 30 kilometres west of the city along the Gregg Creek forest service road.
Two water bombers were employed to try to halt the spread of the fire. The photos of the planes were taken from Highway 16 west.
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The bombers managed to drop four loads of retardant before the sun vanished and it became too dark to fly. The fire was contained to a small area. It should be in the clean-up stage today.
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There has been lots of standing dead trees , in that area for several years.
Glad to hear they got ‘on it’ right away.
I’m still amazed at how many people I see flicking their cigarette butts out their car windows. Your car already stinks, why not put it in the ashtray instead of potentially causing a fire from your carelessness?
Those are called air tankers – not water bombers. The planes carry retardant-not water.
Picky, picky.
Yes, very picky I would say!
If those are called air tankers, what are the planes which carry fuel for air to air refueling called? …… :-)
Seems these planes drop their payload, as a bomber does …. air tankers do not drop their load, they transfer it from their plane to another one …..
Maybe we could call them retardant bombers …. or retarded bombers … LOL … but bombers they are…
“Airtankers or water bombers are fixed-wing aircraft fitted with tanks that can be filled on the ground at an air tanker base or, in the case of flying boats and amphibious aircraft, by skimming water from lakes, reservoirs, or large rivers.”
Wiki. Nobody is wrong. Relax.
They are indeed air tankers not water bombers.
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