Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the ... The scooper planes refill by descending to calm waters and skimming the water’s surface to load their tanks.

Using five medium-sized twin-engine helicopters, pilots, including Prince, battled heavy winds, while hovering 50 to 100 feet over steep terrain to drop thousands of gallons of water at pinpoint ...

That pattern is called a glitter path." "The width of the glitter path is telling us how rough the water is. Where its narrow the waters calm and where it gets wider the waters a bit rougher." ...