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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by mongol on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:48PM (#19667777)
Non-native speaker here. Is there even something called that? (Yes I know it is a quote)
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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by cptskippy on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:13PM (#19668018)
Airtankers, waterbombers, and air attack are all common terms used to refer to aerial firefighting. I can't imagine this is something unique to North America but both the United States and Canada employ planes and helicopters to drop water and fire retardants on forest fires in remote areas where conventional firefighting equipment cannot reach.

We also have a form of firefighter called a Smoke Jumper that's the equivalent of a Paratrooper for fighting fires. They're deployed in these remote areas to clear out areas ahead of fires to constrict or redirect fires.

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by cgh on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:02PM (#19667927)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415

Widely used in Canadian firefighting, mainly forest fires. These fires are huge, covering 1,351,314 hectares in BC alone in 2018[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_wildfire...

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by ceejayoz on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:43PM (#19668249)
If you want to go really big, here's a 747 one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/747_Supertanker

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Re:Notre-Dame cathedral: Firefighters tackle blaze in Paris by itronitron on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:07PM (#19667976)
They are generally called air tankers and are typically used on forest fires and brush fires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_firefighting

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