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The news camera guy versus the fire bomber

submitted by SFOGuy

1 decade 6 months 1 week ago

The recent fires in the San Diego area which have threatened even Legoland (shudder) have meant that every resource has been deployed. Here, a DC-10 fire bomber, preceded by a twin-engine marker plane, makes a fire retardant drop---and a news cameraman manages to be in exactly the right place to document and follow up on the drop.

The stuff itself is largely non-toxic is my understanding; it's even a bit of a fertilizer after the fact.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 16th, 2014 6:58am PDT - promote requested by kulpims.

Clean the lens you philistines! There's a smudge even before that crap drops on them!

thank you!
Personal fantasy; in my next career, I want to be a fire bomber pilot (twin engine propeller would fine)---flying beat up old aircraft into giant smoke plumes...1000-2000 gallons on each pass

The DC-10 shown here is a beast of an entirely different nature. It can drop 12,000 gallons---

There is even, though I've not seen San Diego footage---a 747 conversion that can drop 20,000 gallons on each pass

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Who came in here expecting Molotov Cocktails?

Evergreen went bankrupt as of Jan 1.

There is even, though I've not seen San Diego footage---a 747 conversion that can drop 20,000 gallons on each pass

dystopianfuturetoday

jokingly says...

Chemtrails: confirmed

Egads...
That's sad.
They build the 747 on spec---I guess we just didn't have enough fires to support it.
Though paradoxically, this year, we might.

Evergreen went bankrupt as of Jan 1.

LOL

dystopianfuturetoday

Chemtrails: confirmed

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