[californiadisasters] 2013 Air Tanker Availability In California

Joann,

Cal Fire has 23 S-2T's in its fleet. However, I don't know how many of those are available at present but it is certainly not all 23.

Additionally, the USFS has it's own fleet of tankers but I don't yet know how many will be stationed in California this year but undoubtedly most of them are not here yet.

Remember, this is atypically early in the year for us to be dealing with fires like this so we are doing great with what we've got but we don't have all our assets in place yet.

Kimmer

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Joann Lavis <joalis76@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

found the info in 2012 we had 11 air tankers

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To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
From: joalis76@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 15:41:16 -0700
Subject: RE: [californiadisasters] Re: Wildland Fire-BTU-CA-Panther

 

kim do you know how many air tankers we have here for california ? seems resources are getting or will be really thin soon

6 air tankers are coming in from victorville now for the springs fire in ventura

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