Between October 5 and 11, 2008, these were some of the topics we covered on Wildfire Today:
–A few people were asking questions about the effects of 20,000 gallons of salt water that water scooping aircraft dropped on a wildfire at Camp Pendleton in southern California.
–A Santa Maria Judge said two local ranch-hands repairing a water pipe on a hot and windy day in the Santa Barbara County backcountry of southern California in 2007 did not recklessly cause the Zaca Fire. The Zaca Fire started on the Fourth of July and eventually burned more than 240,000 acres in and near the Los Padres National Forest.
–According to the National Fire and Aviation Executive Board Federal Agencies should have been transitioned to the New Generation Fire Shelter by January 1, 2009. All agencies, cooperators and contracted resources were to be transitioned by January 1, 2010.
–The Chevron Corporation announced that it had donated $500,000 to the State of California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to help support the cost of battling the state’s severe wildfires that year.
—NASA began a study to examine the mission suitability of Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 fire retardant delivery aircraft. The planes to be studied were a DC-10 belonging to 10 Tanker Air Carrier LLC and a 747 owned by Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. The DC-10 tanker had already been successfully employed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in past wildfire suppression missions.
Bill, it’s stuart hunt can you tell me what the plaque says
Plaque?