Random Ramblings: Aerial Wildland Firefighting

I have blogged about aerial wildland firefighting since 2009. I am not a firefighter and am not a pilot, just an interested bystander who wants to learn more and share what I learn here. Join me here as I blog on the aircraft and the pilots who fight wildland fires from the air in support of crews on the ground. I also blog on concerns affecting fire crews on the ground as well as other aviation and meteorology issues. Learn what it takes to do jobs that are staffed by the best of the best.

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Pausing and remembering the Yarnell Hill 19

Tanker action near Kamloops, British Columbia

Two Dougs taking off to fight fires (one retired, one still flying)

History - 1910 wildfires

History - 1961 wildfire in Bel-Air, Brentwood, and Santa Ynez CA

History - 1970 fire Holocast in CA

Seaside NJ Fire -- making last stand possible

Seaside NJ Fire - Friday morning update

Fire on Boardwalk at Seaside Park and Seaside Heights NJ

A&P shares photos of historic aircraft

Pausing to Remember attacks of Sept. 11

Morgan Fire -- Smoke Plume Weather

Geronimo and Del Rosa Hotshots

Rim Fire (CA) - on the fireline

Rim Fire (CA) - Sept. 3 update

RIP Tanker 09: I remember

Aerial application cockpit footage from an AT-502

Rim Fire (CA) - Aug 28

Rim Fire update - 8/26/13

Rim Fire (near Yosemite in CA)