Keith Mitchell was kind enough to send us these photos that he took at Palmer, Alaska yesterday, May 21. He said a good summary of the current fires in the state can be found HERE. Another source is HERE.
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Bryan
Thanks kindly for sending in the pics of the Conair tankers and cl-215t scoopers of alberta , always a favorite…always great to see the aircraft in there element.
My wife and I played golf at Palmer Golf Course located next to the Palmer airport on Saturday 5/24/14. We enjoyed watching the fire fighting planes landing and taking off, but we were wondering which fire they were supporting? If they were fighting the fires on the Kenai Peninsula, then why weren’t they using the Kenai airport? Maybe they were fighting the Tyonek fire. Anybody know?
Smoke in Kenai? Lack of retardant? They are hauling LC down to Kenai this morning with Convairs and will be prepositioned there for the day. Tankers and (Alberta) Scoopers were prepositioned and working out of Kenai yesterday. Conair’s MX is also located in Palmer, so they will most likely recover there for the night. The state has brought 3 addtional Canadian Convairs and 4 Canadian CL-215Ts to bolster the 2 Convairs already on exclusive-use contract. Clear as LC-95A?
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Thanks kindly for sending in the pics of the Conair tankers and cl-215t scoopers of alberta , always a favorite…always great to see the aircraft in there element.
My wife and I played golf at Palmer Golf Course located next to the Palmer airport on Saturday 5/24/14. We enjoyed watching the fire fighting planes landing and taking off, but we were wondering which fire they were supporting? If they were fighting the fires on the Kenai Peninsula, then why weren’t they using the Kenai airport? Maybe they were fighting the Tyonek fire. Anybody know?
Smoke in Kenai? Lack of retardant? They are hauling LC down to Kenai this morning with Convairs and will be prepositioned there for the day. Tankers and (Alberta) Scoopers were prepositioned and working out of Kenai yesterday. Conair’s MX is also located in Palmer, so they will most likely recover there for the night. The state has brought 3 addtional Canadian Convairs and 4 Canadian CL-215Ts to bolster the 2 Convairs already on exclusive-use contract. Clear as LC-95A?
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