Sunday evening CAL FIRE / Shasta County Fire participated in the Redding (California) Lighted Christmas Parade with a special float featuring Tanker 94 flown by Smokey Bear dropping a special load of presents. The model airtanker is a replica of CAL FIRE’s Tanker 94 based at the Redding Air Base. It was created by CAL FIRE Engineer Patrick Westrip and many volunteers. Watch a video of how it was developed.
You can compare the float with the real Tanker 94 below.
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As the gifts cascade from the S2TT (tiny) the boxes remind me of the company developing “borate in a box”.
For anyone not familiar with the term “borate”, it was a formulation of fire retardant that has not been used in air tankers since it was briefly tested on fires in southern California in 1956 and found to be a soil sterilant.
What an awesome idea, with excellent execution!
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