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LA Fires
1/9/2025 | self

Posted on 01/08/2025 9:10:26 PM PST by BullwinkleMoose

Is there a reason they're not using airborne water tanker planes to fight the LA fires?


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Does anybody know why this is not being done?
1 posted on 01/08/2025 9:10:26 PM PST by BullwinkleMoose
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To: BullwinkleMoose

The wind has been blowing too hard.


2 posted on 01/08/2025 9:11:34 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: BullwinkleMoose

AI knows

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-there-a-reason-they-re-not-qvJLiIKlTLO2Cxb6GH7ysg


3 posted on 01/08/2025 9:12:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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Does anybody know why this is not being done?

Because this is California. Nothing there works anymore.

4 posted on 01/08/2025 9:12:45 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: BullwinkleMoose

Visibility problems. Too smokey.

Yes I see the irony.


5 posted on 01/08/2025 9:13:06 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: BullwinkleMoose

“Is there a reason they’re not using airborne water tanker planes to fight the LA fires?”

Cannot find any DEIs with a pilot’s license?


6 posted on 01/08/2025 9:13:43 PM PST by BobL
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To: BullwinkleMoose

too windy apparently.


7 posted on 01/08/2025 9:15:32 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: BullwinkleMoose

They are when they can, but the wind isn’t just causing problems with the aircraft - it’s just blowing any water drop away. I.E., when they drop the water payload, it just gets blown all over the place and none of it hits the ground in the target area, if at all.


8 posted on 01/08/2025 9:17:47 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: radu

Wind has not been blowing hard today.

Yesterday was the hurricane like winds. Stopped very early in the morning today.


9 posted on 01/08/2025 9:17:53 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BullwinkleMoose

Yeah, the wind speed is one issue

The second issue is they don’t have many planes, Canada apparently has sent some of theirs because of our lack


10 posted on 01/08/2025 9:17:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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They were until it got too windy yesterday and shut them down last night. Been using them all day today, md80’s, BA146, various prop/choppers, etc.


11 posted on 01/08/2025 9:18:13 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: BullwinkleMoose

Newsom and Bass should resign.

Time to bring in the Feds. They can do a better job.


12 posted on 01/08/2025 9:20:14 PM PST by moviefan8
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To: radu

They started again this afternoon
With both tankers and helos

Doing night drops right now on new Hollywood hills fires


13 posted on 01/08/2025 9:21:52 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: BullwinkleMoose

They are using them today. Saw them myself. Yesterday the winds were high and visibility was poor and much of the burning occured at night.


14 posted on 01/08/2025 9:22:49 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find. )
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To: BullwinkleMoose

Even Biden is grounded


15 posted on 01/08/2025 9:26:13 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: radu

Because airplanes cause Global Warming /S


16 posted on 01/08/2025 9:28:44 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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Does anybody know why this is not being done?

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Haven’t you seen the reports of the 100 mph winds?


17 posted on 01/08/2025 9:44:22 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)
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To: ifinnegan

Good. I didn’t know the winds had calmed down enough today. I just knew they’d mentioned yesterday that the planes couldn’t fly. The footage I’ve seen today and tonight showed the flames and smoke blowing.
Horrifying to see. I’m waiting and hoping to hear from my step-sister, who lives out there. I don’t know if any of the fires are near her.


18 posted on 01/08/2025 9:46:17 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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I just saw some footage a few minutes ago of a helicopter flying. Now sure which fire it was flying over though. Might well have been the new fire that started a little while ago.

And now another one has started at Studio City. :-(

19 posted on 01/08/2025 9:50:56 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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To: Fai Mao

Well, heck. We all know that. ;-)


20 posted on 01/08/2025 9:51:53 PM PST by radu (God bless our military men and women, past and present)
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