Science

Issues with Aerial Fire Fighting

Learn Science on mps-science.com. Issues with Aerial Fire Fighting article will help answer your questions on Science.We at mps-science.com specialize in Science. Science at mps-science.com provides the most up to date news and articles. If you have questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

I have always pondered the methods of fire fighting by air and the possible future fighting methods with UAVs, robots in combination with a national forest policy which would allow some smaller fires to burn their course and others

A few years ago I visited the Wyoming Contractor, which used WWII conveyance to fight such fires. I was dumbstruck that such old water craft were not in museums but rather in flying condition and used for dropping phoschek on fires. Nicknamed the “Borate Bombers” afterwards the old material, which for years we used to drop on fires from the air. It was very red, highly toxic to plant life but quite would do it’s job when put on top of a fire or in the path of one.

I have steadfastly pondered the methods of fire fighting by air and the possible future fighting methods with UAVs, robots in shaping with a national forest policy which would submit some smaller fires to burn their course and others to be put out when in sensitive areas to human structures, life or endangered species. We cannot totally prevent forest fires by simply “Giving a Hoot” since many are naturally occurring and have been since the writings of the first explorers and the drawings and past down tales of the Indians living there only yesterday the discovery of the then modern world. The earliest voyagers scouting out and mapping what is now California’s strand mentioned the wild fires that occur naturally. With some fires now occurring unnaturally; arson, thoughtlessness of contraband (here is an idea to be sold in areas near forest regions? Self-Extinguishing Cigarettes?)

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories...ly8.html?f=et55

And accidents of mankind we are forced to fight these unnatural fires unnaturally with aircraft. We do this for reasons of safety, human life, bambi and property.

The CDF (California Department of Forestry) has many kite and the C-130s of the California Air National Guard are equipped to spray phoschek D75 (it’s a cooperation of diammonium phosphate, elementary stabilizers and pink oxide iron dye) on fires. Protocol has been developed for faster response in harmony with a political republican welter back in the early 90s when they sat on the ground waiting for the directory of Disaster Area, erst launching and the carrier sat on the ground for 11 hours until other means were exhausted and the fire impaired out of control from Calabasas through Malibu to the pacific ocean and back towards the Conejo Valley. Now days the mutual response protocol delivers not only the CDF but also the coordinated efforts of the Air National Guard and local and regional fire fighters immediately. Politically speaking we are fighting fires faster and more efficient these days, but it is up to all of us to watch out for arsonists and extinguish those box nails, when are you going to quit? Think close at hand all this and do your part.

More Articles: