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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From: Sky2high@aol.com

To: lml@lancaironline.net

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.

 

Large fires can be found at http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

 

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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