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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Next Generation Air Tankers: Coulson's C-130Q and Aero Flite's RJ85

"Old Fire" (Old Bridge NJ) contained

Wildfire in Middlesex County NJ is almost contained

Wildfire in Middlesex County NJ

Red Flag Warnings for most of NJ and portions of adjoining states

Still more fall wildfire activity in the Mid-Atlantic

RIP Walt Darran

Entiat Hotshots in Action

NJ Forest Fire Services helping out at WV Wildfire

More fall wildfire activity in the mid-atlantic

Rim Fire - Burned Area Emergency Response (2 of 2)

Super Typhoon Haiyan

Rim Fire - Burned Area Emergency Response (1 of 2)

Wildfires in New South Wales Australia in pictures

Fall Fire Season in the East???

Weather Observer

SS Storm Sandy's impact on the Delaware Bayshore

RIP David Black and Peter Brereton

A-26 Tanker's service in Canada still to come

Remembering the Cedar Fire ten years later