CA-CNF-Holy???

California & Hawaii Hotlist Questions and Discussion
#44

Drones are being used

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#45

Need to try all options

https://goo.gl/images/6fx1nh

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#46

hope they donā€™t plan to use hydrogen to keep it aloft!

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#47

Theyā€™ll use hot airā€¦

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#48

At this rate you never know

#49

Interesting idea, but that airship will be uncontrollable in the winds over a fire.

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#50

Grass fires in open terrain. Do they need visibility on blimp to make drop? Is blimp remote access too? What about the mobilization time from report of fire? How much H2O does it carry? What is turn around? Operating costs? Does operator mobilize with equipment and what is their range? How does the operator keep comms with air attack? Is it effective under test trials? Lots of questions.

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#51

No water, 24 hr oberservation. Fly out of March to whole state

#52

Drones dont make drops -

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#53

I think we are talking about two different pieces of equipment. The link shows a hot air balloon with large tank for water suppression. Article talks about drone capabilities for monitoring by way of military. Both are outside the box but plausible in my humble opinion. Especially when we talk about human factors on the fireline and trying to mitigate firefighter safety on the ground (burnovers, falling trees, and rollovers).

#54

Can we keep these threads on topic? Maybe actual fire conditions. All this speculation on how to run an incident and what kind of drone is flying around is getting annoying. Drones donā€™t drop water nor are they going to use a blimp.

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#55

Lol, right?!?!

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#56

Thank you ā€¦Mods. Please moderate and advise certain users. Thank you and stay safeā€¦and on topic

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#57

This is the ā€œQuestions and Discussionā€ thread. It where these things are supposed to be discussed

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#58

About the Holy Incidentā€¦not blimps

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#59

:man_shrugging: Whatever. If you only want updates, only watch the Continuing Incident thread

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#60

Will someone post a QR for the IAP, pz?

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#61

Datdude,
I posted the OP map for today in the info thread on this incident. I have another one that is also an OP map labelled QR but it looks the same. I have an IAP index of maps but no actual written IAP. Anything sound appealing?

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#62

Being unified command there may not be any public access to the IAP. Maps yes but the forest service is real picky about IAPs in public hands because of phone numbers.

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#63

Would it really be that difficult to issue a redacted IAP for public viewing?