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And it appears there's a burn right close to you...
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Saw on the news today, 183 arrests for arson so far. They should suit 'em up and drop 'em into the fray...
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Thoughts and Prayers for all in Harms Way.
Later 42rocker
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Someone ought to call Coulson Aviation. There are two Martin Mars sitting around up here with nothing to do. One ready to go with the most up-to-date navigation and flight control technology and another sitting on the hard, but could be brought into service.
Heck, maybe you can even buy the damn things as they put out fires much too fast for Canada.
You see up here we know there's a fortune to be made fighting forest fires, all on the taxpayer's tab, so big planes which put out fires quickly get in the way of maximum profitability for fire-fighting companies, and funnily enough, quite a few of those are not Canadian owned.
Just follow the money!
On the other hand they had one Mars all painted up in USN colours ready to go to a Museum in the USA when the federales intervened and said it couldn't be exported because it was a cultural asset or some such nonsense. I guess the plan is to gradually bankrupt Coulson by starving the company for work while forcing them to pay to maintain and store the planes.
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This is what happened when we were seriously on fire in 2009 and how our Govt reacted to Russia helping us, no sir I think our Govt is hell bent to keep Dantes infrno going for reasons unknown to us otherwise they would be screaming for water aircraft from all over the world.
Russia offered these planes our Govt basically said stick it "Each of the giant Ilyushin-76 jets could drop in a single pass 42,000 litres of water or retardant on a fire - almost five times the maximum capacity of the ''Elvis'' skycrane helicopters."
I came up with a thought where possible to protect town and infrastructure pinch a fire tender water cannon truck from all the international air ports they could afford to lose one unit that water cannon would be a great asset.
The fire truck I looked at purchasing for the power station had a water cannon on it which could fire water up to a vertical height of 40M but the bean counters said at $565,000.oo it was too expensive I said to them how much is this power station worth to rebuild and received a deer in the headlight response..............! schmucks......
Anyway will keep you people posted if you wish.
This picture pretty much sums up the desperation victims are faced with.
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I feel for you guys down under.
Saw the MAFFS guys doing pattern work today and wonder if they'll get activated.
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Saw on the news today, 183 arrests for arson so far.
But WHO ARE these people? Is this going to be dealt with as terrorism? There were people making statements that this was how they were going to fight...
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