Bridger Aerospace’s super scoopers are heading for the fire lines in Canada.
“We’ve offered to assist and are sending a lot of our fleet up there — the entire scooper fleet, as well as some other aircraft to help with the surveillance and mapping of those fires. And just hoping we can help out and protect,” Bridger Aerospace chief executive officer Tim Sheehy said.
The call for help came in on Wednesday night.
“To help our colleagues up North in Nova Scotia or anywhere else in the world, you know, we jumped at that opportunity because, you know, we want to show everybody that these airplanes are truly, you know, made for what they are, and that’s to save lives and, you know, put water on fire,” Bridger Aerospace scooper fleet maintenance operations manager Stephen Esposito said.
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Many times the drop just fans the flames and makes the fire more agressive.
A BIG THANKS from your Northern neighbors. In a crisis you find out who your true friends are.
It's special to know that those aircraft that we designed and built are now coming back home to help us. 😀
I'm from Alberta and I wish this report would have more accurately reflected how many people have been evacuated due to wildfires. It's not thousands across Canada, it's 30,000 in Alberta alone.
Canadian technology at its finest!
Prayers for our Canada, glad we can return the favor after they sent us help with our wild fires a few years ago. Go Firefighters!
Honestly Canada has been a good neighbor to us, I'm glad we can return the favor.
As a Canadian, I firstly wanna say sorry for the bad air quality eh, but also, god bless America for helping us in our times of need!
Good work.
Nice people!
Turns out Super Scoopers are made in Canada. (In France they just say "Canadair" (company name), not super scooper or water bomber. "Firefighters in Canadairs are working around the clock" etc.)