The Fairview fire is one of the first in which Cal Fire has deployed helicopters at night.
has deployed specially trained pilots like Renner to fly at night using night-vision goggles, joining other fire departments, like Los Angeles’, that have been fighting blazes from the skies in the dark for years.
The primary role of aircraft is not to put out fires but to support ground crews, said Chance Inwood, air operations branch director for Cal Fire Team 6. “This is a full-suppression fire. That means we go after it with everything we’ve got. We’re going to be here days, maybe weeks,” he said. He said he did 60 drops over the massive fire in Riverside County over two days. That was possible, Schaures said, because the airport, which is home to a Cal Fire base, “just happens to be close” to the Fairview fire.
“I was particularly interested in these houses,” he said. “We were doing structure protection, so I was particularly worried about these.”Record heat is fueling dangerous fires across California, pushing firefighters to the limit and creating ideal conditions for more blazes to spark and spread.
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