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ERDA, Utah — As wildfire season continues in Utah, aircraft are being utilized to help fight fires from the air.At the Tooele Valley Airport in Erda, you will find a couple of single-engine air tankers — also known as SEATs — parked near the runway.'These are firefighting airplanes. They can carry up to 800 gallons of fire retardant with them,' said Joshua Archibald, the unit aviation manager with the Bureau of Land Management's West Desert District.
'So far this year, we've responded to 38 separate fires and have delivered over 60,000 gallons of retardant,' said Archibald.He says here in the Great Basin, there are 18 single-engine air tankers taking to the sky to assist on wildfires. That includes aircraft in Tooele, Cedar City, and Pocatello, Idaho.' are going low and slow and they're taking a lot of risks and they're doing that for public safety. I consider them heroes,' said Archibald.
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