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IIRC Evergreen is still negotiating a USFS demonstration contract, which has stricter requirements and requires much more paperwork than the CDF contract the DC10 has. Evergreen needs more than a California contract to recoup some of their 40 million dollars in development costs.

Would be nice to have the 747 on line down here in SoCal. 24000 gals of water/retardant in 10 seconds puts alot of the good stuff on a fire real quick.

Strzelec write: "...Would be nice to have the 747 on line down here in SoCal. 24000 gals of water/retardant in 10 seconds puts alot of the good stuff on a fire real quick."

That is a lot of water. Could a 747 navigate through all the canyon passes down here?

Photo By Juan Carlo/Staff Photographer Ventura County Star

Moorpark 12-04-06: Santa Barbara County Fire Department firefighter Gary Weslander sprays water on the hot spots at the end of Gabbert Road in Moorpark. Weslander is spraying to keep the embers from flying into some trailers near by.