Tankers and Helos Getting Ready for 2025 Wildfire Season

The 2025 Wildfire Season is here and companies that fly airtankers, helicopters, and lead planes continue to get ready for the fire season. Of importances is annual spring training as demonstrated in the video below from Neptune Aviation on Facebook, go here for the direct link. To the best of my knowledge all companies flying tankers and helicopters for wildland firefighting conduct annual spring training, spring training may be a part of their contract. 

Below are some images of spring training from Coulson Aviation's Facebook page, here is a direct link

Coulson Aviation's Tanker 132, a C-130, is finished her duties in Australia where she was helping the Australian's fight fires in their summer season. Tanker 132 is on her way back to Coulson's base in Thermal California where she will undergo maintenance in preparation for the 2025 Wildfire Season in the United States here. Unfortunately, I am unable to embed the video because it contains content owned by someone else. I hope you go directly to Facebook where you can watch this short video of Tanker 132's flight back to the United States. However, I did find a six-year old video on Coulson's YouTube channel about spring training that I am embedding below.

Direct link to Video from Coulson Aviation on YouTube

Note: to the best of my knowledge you should be able to see the embedded content from Facebook on all of your devices unless you have browser settings that do not allow this content.