Helicopters provide rapid transport, enabling helitack crews to quickly respond and assess a wildfire situation. Helitack crews may land near a wildfire or, if...
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000-gallon airtankers. These aircraft are stationed at 14 airtanker and 11 helitack bases located statewide and can reach most fires within 20 minutes. Tactical...
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Howard Forest Station (section Helitack Base)
Mendocino County. The compound is also the location of the Howard Forest Helitack Base and serves as the headquarters of the Mendocino Ranger Unit. Howard...
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Twelve firefighters were unable to outrun the blaze and perished. Two more helitack firefighters were also killed as they tried to flee to the northwest. Those...
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encompasses three rural counties and consists of eight fire stations, one Helitack Base, three conservation camps and an inmate firefighter training center...
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helitack crews perform duties similar to other initial attack crews. Two or three firefighters will be dispatched to a newly reported fire. Helitack crews...
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Alma, California (section Alma Helitack Base)
millimeters). CAL FIRE operates one of its 11 helitack bases near the site of the former town. Alma Helitack Base houses one helicopter and one fire engine...
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Springs, Colorado. Five other firefighters, three smokejumpers and two helitack firefighters, also died in the incident. On June 30, 2013, nineteen members...
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A Bell 205A-1 with its helitack firefighting crew on standby with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources at Sioux Lookout, Ontario, 1995...
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Fire Control Pty. Kawak Aviation Technologies, Helicopter rescue basket Helitack — helicopter-delivered fire resources Cargo hook (helicopter) Glossary...
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making dozens of sorties a day for several months.[citation needed] "Helitack" is the use of helicopters to combat wildland fires. The helicopters are...
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firefighting DC-10 UAVs Driptorch Fire flapper Fire rake Fire retardant Helitack McLeod (rakehoe) Pulaski Axes Billhook Broadaxe Brush hook Froe (shake...
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(Idaho) Smokejumpers, Roger Roth and James Thrash, and two members of a Helitack crew, Richard Tyler and Rob Browning. Fire on the Mountain, won the Mountain...
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enclosed seating areas for their crews. Aerial firefighting apparatus Helitack Fireboat Fire bike Fire engine Quint Wildland fire engine Airport crash...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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smaller drops on fires). Some helicopters are used on fires for cargo (helitack) delivering supplies to firefighters, usually with netted cargo slung under...
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Brianna Hildebrand, Dennis Haysbert, and Judy Greer. Wildland fire module Helitack National Smokejumper Association "Smokejumpers" (PDF). Heritage. 4 (9):...
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A Bell 205A-1 with its helitack firefighting crew with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in 1995...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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OG58), a private, 130 x 130 ft. (40 x 40 m) heliport. Aerial firefighting Helitack List of companies based in Oregon "Erickson Incorporated". Erickson. Retrieved...
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mustering, pest control, wildlife management Firefighting – helicopter bucket, helitack Flight training Forestry – heli-logging, stream restoration Freight – aerial...
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about fifteen minutes earlier. Ryan Air Attack is a joint Air Attack / Helitack base operated by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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lower helipad at Nym Lake, ON, 1996 A contract Bell 205A-1 with its MNR helitack firefighting crew on standby at Sioux Lookout, Ontario, 1995 MNR contracts...
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attached to the main load line. Variations: screamer suit, Evac harness, helitack hotseat, Pitagor Evac triangle, air rescue vest. Stretcher carriage device...
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events became an incident with an incident within an incident. Smokejumpers Helitack Aerial firefighting Great Fire of 1910 "Northern Rockies National Interagency...
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Later on August 2, the fire had again grown to 2,046 acres (828 ha), and a helitack was assigned to extinguish the fire. By the evening of August 3, the fire...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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Wildland fire engine Wildland water tender Personnel Fire lookout Handcrew Helitack Hotshot crew Smokejumper Wildland fire module By location Ancient Rome...
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