Bill Whitaker reports on the largest helicopter to ever fight fires at night, used in California as the state faced one of its most intense fire years ever.
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How does night dropping of retardant help when conditions do not allow for flights? Or when there are spot fires starting 2 miles out?
Good job Antifa 👍🏻
Thank you for your service- my house was spared by feet! The helicopters helped to save my Tahoe neighborhood and I had no idea about this awesome technology! More communication is needed and more tax dollars!!
One of the problems with fires is we need fires. Fighting every single fire allows brush to build up creating even more fuel when the fire does happen. The life cycle of many of these forests require fire to germinate like the Sequoia. The other problem is allowing people build in forests and not clear brush from their property.
Jesus is coming back very soon!!!
Just left N.Cali 3 days ago. It's surreal watching it ablaze now. We were just there! What a wierd feeling. I hope this fire is out out asap🙌🏾🙏🏿
I would expect the governor of the world's 5th largest econemy to have done a better job of putting out forrest fires. Now he wants to be president.
democrats cause the fires by not maintaining the land – voting has consequences
Timber sawed down should be gathered in long stripped areas. These areas should be wide enough so they can help stop forest fires from spreading and it would leave firefighters room enough to enter the stripped areas to fight the fires more easily. For the most part, timber should be cut down in the mountains that are closer to towns. I know that this would look strange but it could be very helpful to save people's homes and lives. It's like having a strategic war against forest fires. Most timber is selected individually to be cut down. That is ok as long as they cut the stripped areas out as well to prevent the spread of fires. When will they ever learn?
Brian Fennessy is a good man and great leader….and he's being VERY VERY diplomatic. I will tell you MY take….THE USFS SUCKS. And….FURTHERMORE…it's not "resistance to change" that Chief Fennessy is trying to diplomatically frame this…it's EGO. Trust me….it's ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL about ego. And firefighters and chiefs reading this know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
Awesome video! God bless. Always remember that Jesus Christ loves you all so much! Jesus Christ forgives all sins. Jesus Christ is God, King, and Savior!❤️🙏
What a horror leveling Lake Tahoe would be…
Threats to the massive overtime pay is a factor that drives the in-fighting.
This is becoming normalized….
Brian is the biggest fraud in California. We had a fire in Laguna Niguel in May of this year that could have been put out if they would have called air support sooner and not waited for an hour for the fire to intensify and rush the hilltop homes. They let it burn to see how much damage it would cause the homes. I have lived here for 26 years and it seems that the firefighters are put in these positions and paid a lot of money to make poor decisions and let these fires destroy our lives. This man should not be chief, he wants to blame everything on climate change. He claimed this fire would have happened ten years it would have been put out immediately. Which he was complete ignorant to the 1993 Laguna Beach fire that destroyed 450 homes. Yeah Brian should have stayed as a hot shot because that is all he is good at. You sit here and complained about them not using you airplane and you did not order air support on a fire that could have easily been put out before it destroyed all those homes in Coronado Point. I drove up there after it started and there was nothing but a few fire trucks doing nothing and hundreds of people. You knew the terrain and what kind of brush was there and that it could only be fought by air, but no air support for a whole hour and it was way too late. You should be responsible for this fire since you are complaining about Cal Fire not using your stuff.
We needed controlled burns for the last 150 years. This is what the Indians did. Also controlled logging. Forests are now thicker with trees many becoming deceased. We risk life and millions making the rest of the forest thicker and a bigger fire hazard.
Redwood are flame resistant. Unfortunately the trees replanted for years are not. In fact they are combustible. Especially when digested by the Fu-Go pine beetle. You buy the right wood for the fence. Why not get the right wood for the forest. Definitely don't buy a clone tree.
These fires are going nowhere, it's a godly War till the mankind know there is no other planet to go to , this biblical fire will not halt untill our planet is like red planet ,, no technology can defeat these consuming fires
They need an all new helicopter… 6 blades that can carry MORE WATER… maybe ever all new water with additives that choke a fire.
We are not 'thinking' about the honest reality of the situation we are in!
If we can make a hypersonic nuke… we can make a drone that 'freezes' out fires… Tell the Republicans that the fires are Muslim or something.
Now we need ac-130’s with water guns, Pay me later
If their "infighting" likely caused more loss of life and property. Great job guys!
I hear climate change mentioned CONSTANTLY, by the the president and Gavin Newsome. Forrest fires creat more CO2 than all of the cars combined. And they eliminate tens of millions of CO2 removing trees. Yet, politicians cannot seem to do something simple like eliminate bozo bureaucracies running the firefight. President Biden should do what George W Bush did when it turned out there was too much infighting in the intelligence agencies. He created Homeland Security, One body that is in charge. The Same thing needs to be done with fire fighting.
This “hammer” program needs to be expanded ten fold throughout the west.
to the reporters on 60 minutes… please stop having the editor cut to a shot of you posing
a question as though it's a question, when all you're really doing is putting an inquisitive inflection on what you assume
the person your interviewing is going to say next… its leading, and it makes u look stupid and over paid.
THE INFIGHTING IS ABSOLUTELY REAL! THERES YOUR STORY.
My brother in Placerville was on evacuation warning for weeks during the Caldor fire. I was so nervous for him. This makes me angry that it was possibly unnecessary in how long it took to get it controlled and my brother’s life, along with others, being at risk unnecessarily as well.