Cork on Fork: MeSoHomely: If you responded with a C-130, it would be with supplies, retardant, or a plane load of very pissed off paratroopers.

The fire will be out before you can count to potato!

Wants to help:


/hot

Why does God hate Colorado Springs?

algrant33: This shiat's about 5 miles from my house. Last night we were completely inundated with smoke, just like the entire south side of town.

It's awfully fun to watch what amounts to a 30-foot tall bonfire just up the hill after sundown, though.

What you standin there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door

notmtwain: Wow, fighting a 5,000 acre fire with a plane that can carry almost 3000 gallons of water at a time.

I'll bet they can effectively cover up to five acres with just one plane.

// They have a couple hundred of those planes, right?

I'm no expert on firefighting, but I assume that you can use each plane more than once.

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus: Dinodork: RoyBatty: [i.imgur.com image 587x721]

Wildfiretoday.com - How to install a MAFFS II in a C-130J - Posted on June 25, 2012 by Bill Gabbert

Stupid Bill Gabbert... Those are C-130Hs, not C-130Js. 4 prop blades vs 6.

Those were F-16 Eagles.

No no no... There is such a thing as a F-15 Eagle, or a F-16 Falcon, but no combination. Anyone in their right mind knows that's an extreme close-up of an AK-47.



/the more you know...

RoyBatty: [subversatile.net image 450x301]

I heard we were taking on fire at Waldo Canyon. I responded with C-130s.

An SR-71 doing Mach 3 at 1500 feet might blow out the fire with the shock wave.

Indubitably: Actually, um, why isn't the military helping with the civilian fire crisis more? What are we paying you for, civilian forces?
That is all.
P.S. Thank you.

If this fire was bearing down on Key West, you can bet that the large fundie contingent in Colorado Springs would be calling it punishment from God. But now that it's bearing down on them they are calling in the military to stop it.

I was evac'd out yesterday morning, but they let us go back home last night. Incredibly hot and dry with no sign of relief for at least the next week. Walking outside is miserable with all the smoke in the air. They're saying the fire is 5% contained which may not seem like much, but that's 5% more than it's been for the last two days.

Anyone who says we chose to live in a fire zone is totally clueless. There has NEVER been an event like this in the last 30-40 years at least.

CJHardin: Noekken: Ow! That was my feelings!:
The planes are not used to 'put out' a wildfire. They are used to buy time, slow down a hot spot, protect a specific structure, 'guide' the fire in a less destructive direction. They give the boots on the ground a chance to contain the fire and limit its destruction.

Nobody puts out a wildfire, all you can do is contain it and let it burn out.

"It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they're not much bigger than two meters. It'll be just like Beggars' Canyon."

My God! You shoot animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak!

It's OK, they're an invasive species.

Anyone else read the headline as "the military steps in with C-3PO's"??

That's retardant.

Time to blow the shiat out of that brown person fire.

stvdallas: The The PGM-38/U Enhanced 25 mm High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) round would probably cause more fires than it puts out, right?

How about some daisy cutters/MOABs? We use dynamite to put out oil well fires, right?

MeSoHomely: If you responded with a C-130, it would be with supplies, retardant, or a plane load of very pissed off paratroopers.

The fire will be out before you can count to potato!

I heard we were taking on fire at Waldo Canyon. I responded with C-130s.