Florida Forest Service gets new firefighting equipment

The Florida Forest Service unveiled two single-engine air tankers on Wednesday to help battle any potential woods fires as they anticipate a long fire season.

In March, the Chipola Complex Fires burned more than 34,000 acres making it a busy start to the wildfire season in the Panhandle.

Hurricane Michael debris fueled the fires and now Florida Forest Service officials have contracted two new pieces of impressive firefighting equipment.

Read more on this story at mypanhandle.com

AerialFire Staff
AerialFire Staff
AerialFire Magazine strives to provide you with breaking aerial firefighting industry news and information.

Latest Print Edition

Latest Articles

Related articles

00:00
00:00