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I'm a pilot flying a DC-10 fire bomber to battle the LA fires. This is what I've seen — and this is what needs to stop.
The DC-10 is one of dozens of aircraft assisting ... Helicopters are generally dropping water to directly attack the fires, but air tankers — or fire bombers as I like to call them — are ...
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A NASCAR driver’s father is helping fight the L.A. fires in a 400,000-pound airplane
The DC-10 Smithley pilots is a former commercial ... “So we get in position to either hold and not be a conflict to (other air tankers), or we get into a big left holding pattern.