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Damn cant you all go attack one of the other board dweebs besides each other?
Few simple things to consider since I guess there are not california people arguing about this, or people who do not understand forest fires.
The fire is about the size of Rhode island, it will take a bit to gain control no matter what. Pull out a map and think about that.
Politics are just an easy excuse that sells news. If it honestly would help it would be here. The president has zero to do with it and Grey Davis has nothing to loose politically.
There is no way to refill the plane after its initial drop. Assuming you trucked it in, the time and man power wasted would out do what several small planes would accomplish in the lost time.
The plane is way to big to make the proper fast desent into a canyon and pull out before crashing and making matters worse. If it is droped by a higher altitude it will vaporish and just fuel the fire.
Language barriers and comand issues between the CDF air command and ground captains and the pilots would also make these types of flights dangerous to all air craft in use over the fires and firefighters on the ground.
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