DC-10 dropping on the Pawnee Fire in Lake County, California, June, 2018. The OV-10 lead plane, looking small by comparison, led the air tanker into the target and marked it with smoke. Screenshot from video by Jackie Sissel of ABC7.This is a very impressive video of a Very Large Air Tanker, a DC-10, dropping on the Pawnee Fire in Lake County, California in June, 2018. It was shot by Jackie Sissel of ABC7 and posted to Facebook by Wayne Freedman, also with ABC7.
The Pawnee Fire burned 15,000 acres in Lake County, California about a month before the Ranch fire, several miles to the west, burned 459,123 acres.