The supply of chemicals for aerial fire suppression across the US has been locked in with the announcement by US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins that the nation’s Forest Service and Department of Interior’s aerial wildland firefighting force has entered into a new five-year contract. The new contract is with Perimeter Solutions, a US-based fire […]| Wildfire Today
By Trevor Abrahams Aerial firefighting has become a staple component of South Africa’s approach to combating unwanted wildfires and limiting the devastating impacts of such fires. Its emergence as a critical defence system dates back to the period after the devastating fires in South Africa’s plantation forests in the 1980s. As in other parts of […]| Wildfire Today
By Matt Plucinski, Nick McCarthy, Owen Price, and Deb Sparkes There is little quantitative knowledge of, or data describing, how aircraft are used on Australian fires or how effective they are. Most of the existing operational understanding of suppression effectiveness is anecdotal, highly personal and difficult to compile. Most published data are limited to counts […]| Wildfire Today
By Dave Calkin, Cal Bryan and Jim Riddering There has been a small but growing body of research within the United States on the use and effectiveness of aviation over the past 15 years; much of this focused on large airtankers. Studies have focused on understanding where and when aviation drops occur, how fire managers […]| Wildfire Today