There can be a lot of them. We have 51 fires as a result of lightning
strikes, all in one day here is southwestern Oregon. Yesterday there were
6 retardent planes and one smoke jumper plane flying out of KMFR (Medford) for
the fires. The turn around time was short, so at times there were 3 at a
time lined up to get retardent refilled for the next sortie. Only takes
the ground crew about 15 minutes to load a plane. One of the planes
is on contract from Canada. They can fight fires in the US, but US planes
cannot fight fires in Canada.
Gary
LNC2
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Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 9:31
AM
Subject: [LML] Re: Tfr
Terrence,
It's that time of year .... Hazards otherwise known as fires ....
Wouldn't want a jumper or retardant dropper to mix it up with GA. These
come and go as necessary and there are 16 active TFRs in Utah.
Grayhawk
In a message dated 7/27/2013 11:12:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
troneill@charter.net writes:
What
is the purpose of 23 TFRs in the mountains west of Denver?
Why is an FAA
list of these. TLFRs now unavailable?
terrence
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