The problem is they can’t use their air resources because it is nighttime. One Redding TV Station evacuated to Eureka a station there and using and beaming the signals back.
The town of Burney has opened their arms saying they have hotels, campgrounds and land for animals. An hour east along hwy 299 E.
We are south of Redding, but had our WALL Fire last year as well as the fire in October down the road from us. Keeping figers crossed as everything is tinder dry. Temps have been 100+ all week. Luckily no winds for us...yet.
#11. Why can’t they use “air resources because it is nighttime”?
I know that the smoke can be a real problem with aircraft engines (deeps on how high it has gone and how thick in terms of particulate matter), but what is to stop water-carrying aircraft from dropping their load from higher altitudes in concentrated section runs?
Also, helicopters can come in low into areas not already on fire and dump water/chemicals in an attempt to create a fire-break, followed by high-altitude water dumps.
Can huge Air-Crane Helicopters bring in pump trucks and tanker trucks to get water from local sources (assuming that the water pumping stations are still functioning in those cities/towns, and/or that they can see safely enough to get water from the rivers and pump it into the trucks and tankers to move closer to the fires.
Just asking, but we have tremendous “air” carrying capabilities, so are these and other techniques being used?