Conair Air Tractor AT-802 C-FDHX
flyer1
JACD
Boytronic
Gerard van Oostrom
Piotr Gryzowski
Igor Mikhelevich
Manuel EstevezR
Wojtek Turbak
Brian Nicholas
Ricardo Hebmüller
Sandor Vamosi
Roman N.
Sebastian Wajda
Image ID: 964469
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Operator: Conair - C-FDHX
Aircraft: Air Tractor - AT-802
Airport: Canada - 100 Mile House - Watson Lake, BC
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2017-7-7 by Jetzguy [Contact]
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Photographer's remark
(23.9.2017, 10:21 CET)
Conair Fireboss air tankers skim lakes to refill their 3100 L tanks with water so they can attack the massive wildfires in the area. 6 Fireboss aircraft were in this group with a Cessna 208 Caravan Birddog aircraft overhead to control
1 flyer1
(24 September 2017 - 00:21 CET)
Nice....are these fires natural or deliberate Jetzguy ?
2 Jetzguy
(24 September 2017 - 00:35 CET)
Thanks Martin. Normally they are small lightning caused fires but this year was extremely
hot and dry for nearly two months. Then a massive thunderstorm came through and ignited
about 150 fires in less than 48 hrs. System overload so a lot of fires got out of control
before they could be contained. Some burned for 2 months and moved over 100 km. We just
ran out of resources that first weekend and suffered for 2 months because of it. They are
cooling off and being put out now with night times temps going down to freezing. Some
fires were caused by car fires on highways due to overheating. At least 2 were arson
fires. The rest were accidental fires caused by humans.
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