Random Ramblings: Aerial Wildland Firefighting

As someone with a special fondness for the Everglades in Florida, I was saddened to read about a wildfire that is currently burning in the Everglades, see this April 28th Facebook Post from Everglad...

I was delighted to read an April 25th Facebook post from the New Jersey Fire Service  saying that they deployed nine wildland firefighters, three type 4 engines and a pick-up truck ...

 Please do not fly your plane or your drone in fire zones anywhere in the US and globally. If you fly the wildland firefighters can not fly.

This morning I noticed the NJ Forest Fire Service post about the largest fire in NJ History that broke out on April 20, 1963 in Burlington and Ocean Counties, burning 183,148 acres. This wildfire lead to the creation of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. I have a book a...