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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Hurricane Joaquin - Hurricane Hunters are flying

Fighting the Mud River Complex of Wildfires in Big Cypress National Preserve FL

Reflections on the drought in the Western USA and aerial firefighting

wildland firefighting: aerial and ground resources working together

California wildfires update -- Sept 21st

Still more on the Valley Fire

More on the Valley Fire

Valley and Butte wildfires in California

A short overview of fighting Western US wildfires

A little more about the New Jersey Forest Fire Service crews who worked out west

Woodmansie Wildfire - Woodland Twshp NJ

Have a safe Labor Day everyone

Thank-you tankers and helos working western wildfires

Reflections on the wildland firefighters fighting the western wildfires

In Memory of Tanker 09: not forgotten

Wildfires in north western US - August 31st

More on the wildfires out west

Thank-you wildland firefighters

Wildland firefighters who died near Twsip WA identified

New Jersey Forest Fire Service will send more firefighters out west