Firefighting pilots get new facility

The Associated Press and the BBC ^ | 4/9/2006 | Marissa Pasquet

[george76]

Firefighting pilots in Western Colorado have a new facility.

The new Grand Junction Interagency Air Center will be dedicated Tuesday at Walker Field Airport.

The 92-hundred-square-foot facility serves as headquarters for heavy air tankers, pilots, smokejumpers, dispatchers and administrators.

The air center serves as a base for fighting fires in parts of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, New Mexico and Arizona.

It has six full-time employees and 30 seasonal workers.

Last year the center responded to about two-thousand incidents.

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[alfa6]

Nothing says you care like a heavy fire attack aircraft :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[george76]

Nice airplane.

Doing good work.