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Helicopters provide rapid transport,
enabling helitack crews to
quickly respond and ****ess a
wildfire situation.
Helitack crews may land near a
wildfire or, if...
- 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...
- encomp****es
three rural counties and
consists of
eight fire stations, one
Helitack Base,
three conservation camps and an
inmate firefighter training center...
-
helitack crews perform duties similar to
other initial attack crews. Two or
three firefighters will be
dispatched to a
newly reported fire.
Helitack crews...
- 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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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...
- Springs, Colorado. Five
other firefighters,
three smokejumpers and two
helitack firefighters, also died in the incident. On June 30, 2013,
nineteen members...
- 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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making dozens of
sorties a day for
several months.[citation needed] "
Helitack" is the use of
helicopters to
combat wildland fires. The
helicopters are...
- A Bell 205A-1 with its
helitack firefighting crew with the
Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources in 1995...
