[MEG33]

I was near the flight path of those big tankers when I lived in California.Take off is loud ,low and slow.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There always seems to be some idiot who loves policy to the point that it turns the routine into tragedy. I'm reminded of the Park Superintendent who lit a controlled burn (according to policy - although there were 50 mph winds at the top of the ridge) and then tried to put it out when it got a bit bigger than he liked, without calling in help. It ended up burning 50,000 acres in and around Los Alamos NM (400 homes). He was allowed to retire because he had "followed policy."

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, right! Sounds like a Davis Payback and Union Issue combined.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There always seems to be some idiot who loves policy to the point that it turns the routine into tragedy. I'm reminded of the Park Superintendent who lit a controlled burn (according to policy - although there were 50 mph winds at the top of the ridge) and then tried to put it out when it got a bit bigger than he liked, without calling in help. It ended up burning 50,000 acres in and around Los Alamos NM (400 homes). He was allowed to retire because he had "followed policy."

[Jimbaugh]

The CDF murdered those fire victims. They are guilty of criminal bureaucratic negligence.

[The Great RJ]

A perfect example of not letting the professionals do their business and instead giving control to petty bureaucrats.

[Lost Highway]

I guess I was unaware that planes are unable to fly safely at night.

[Moose4]

The policies themselves are probably in place for a good reason--low-level firebombing, at night, in mountainous terrain, is incredibly dangerous, maybe to the point of foolhardiness. But they definitely need to add some wiggle room to those policies, some pilot discretion if nothing else.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

}:-)4

[XHogPilot]

What's the big problem? According to the state of Calif, these fires are a natural event! /s

Andrea Tuttle, head of the state Forestry Department, said Wednesday that California had never “seen this intensity of fire and number of residents being affected ever before.” “This is an extraordinary 100-year event,” she added. “This is Mother Nature’s natural fire cycle. And when you get winds like this, it will overwhelm, for a while, our ability to deal with them.”

Andrea Tuttle, another clueless environmentalist, destroying our world.