Among the aircraft used in aerial wildland firefighting in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere are the Canadair Aerial Firefighters, amphibious purpose built aircraft for wildland firefighting. De Havilland Canada holds the type certificate for these aircraft, The Canadair Aerial Firefighter aircraft are often referred to as Super Scoopers for their ability to quickly scoop water from various water bodies and return to the fire. There will often by a suitable water body for scooping in close proximity to a wildfire so Super Scoopers can make many drops in a short time period.
Quebec Canada has an arrangement to send two of their Super Scoopers to California each year. To the best of my knowledge these two Super Scoopers worked the January 2025 wildfires including but not limited to the Palisades and the Eaton Fires , in addition, at least two other Super Scoopers from Canada went to southern California to assist fighting these fires, see this article from Skies Magazine for more information . I do know that Bridger Aerospace out of Belgrade, Montana sent two of their Super Scoopers to southern California in mid January to help, see this article from Globe Newswire .
One of the Super Scoopers was struck by a drone, the person who flew the drone has been charged with unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, according to an article on Fire Aviation for information about these charges.
Bridger Aerospace talked to CNN a couple of weeks ago about their Super Scoopers and took them on a tour of one of their Super Scoopers. The report on the Super Scoopers is at the beginning of the video, accounting for the first three minutes. The rest of the video is a report by Anderson Cooper on the progress that was then made on the Palisades Fire on or about January 16th. The Palisades fire was declared 100 5 contained on January 31st
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