Loading 3,000 gallons of wildfire retardant into an air tanker in minutes! Video from Medford, Oregon, by Maria Thi Mai, BLM
The Bae-146 plane can be loaded in 10-12 minutes, according to the ground crew, and only takes a few seconds to be released over a wildfire.
Related video: Loading a single-engine air tanker with wildfire retardant: [ Ссылка ]
Watch: Six different aircraft working wildfires
🚁 ➡ Oregon National Guard helicopters called in to fight wildfires: [ Ссылка ]
🛬 ➡ Scooper planes fill up in southwest Oregon: [ Ссылка ]
✈ ➡ Air National Guard deploying C-130s to fight wildifires: [ Ссылка ]
🛩 ➡ Single-engine tankers make successive drops on Washington fires: [ Ссылка ]
✈ ➡ Large air tanker makes big drop in central Oregon: [ Ссылка ]
🔥 ➡ Dramatic aerial video above the Diamond Creek Fire in Washington: [ Ссылка ]
🔥 ➡ BLM firefighters testing small drones this wildfire season: [ Ссылка ]
