Forest Service study favors wildfire water scoops
A U.S. Forest Service study says water-scooping aircraft are better than heavy air tankers for fighting wildfires.
The Denver Post says (http://bit.ly/M4JZzh ) a report being released Monday reviewed the best ways to suppress wildfires like those that ravaged Colorado’s Front Range this year. Forest Service officials are skeptical and they say both options are necessary.
Forest Service officials say they will press ahead acquiring more heavy tankers, which drop up to 3,000 gallons of fire-retardant chemical slurry.
Two people died in the Waldo Canyon fire, which burned 346 homes and 28 square miles in Colorado Springs, and one died in the High Park fire, which destroyed 136 square miles and 259 homes west of Fort Collins.
