Firefighters Coordinate Air and Ground Operations


Firefighters are working together using both airplanes and ground crews to manage an ongoing wildfire. They are creating paths for the fire to stop spreading and planning where to drop water and fire retardant.
Audio|Source: SLO County Public Safety
06:38
Transcript:
29908, cleared in an hour below 3,500. AirTack 6,500, number 4, behind 35373-3-3-Papa. Powerlitz of Towers of the Hazard. Copy that, Cleared down 2998, 3,500, 800, air attack, Highlands and Towers for Hazard. No, he got the other traffic in sight. Sure appreciate all the work yesterday. We'll likely have you in the Lepanza MRB just waiting for them to come up on air ground command. And we'll have you a free change order please. Gifford Air Attack, go ahead. Gifford Air Attack is advised firewatch 5-1s en route to the Gifford with the 936 ETA. Gifford Air Attack. cleared in out of below 3,500 AirTech 6,500, your number 5 and 6 behind the rest. Let's plan direct Lepanza MRB. the MRB, ma'am. Very good. We'll have you on the 23 feet and I sure appreciate all the work yesterday. You guys are crushing it. Cat one covering. 21 Ket1 Show, your son-in to Ash Avenue, referencing (name withheld) at the location, located a long, heavy plastic bag on the east side of the house. About your 1 o'clock, keep pedaling. You want to grab the edge there and start building the return line direct from the drainage bottom up the slope. you guys if you want to run loaded up the black or if you want to come down you know climb in the green then come down the fire's edge to drop you need to both the pattern and all communicate Ralph command XSL command 7 tone 1 tack calcord soundless 917 Pass and left left, let's climb in the green, and then we'll make a left turn, drop down the fire's edge where it kind of blew out last night. ...up some handline where it leaves the dozer line, that drops all the way into the gut bottom of that draw, and then there's no handline beyond that. We want to just pick that up and park it direct. could eliminate you someone. that drain is where the hand lines stop. So we want to pick it up direct from there. Who's on seat? Wait on seat. Off your nose, fire's edge, we're just going to paint all that.
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San Luis Obispo County, CA
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