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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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