Allen County’s airport could become a hub for wildfire fighting.
An aerial firefighting crew based in Hutchinson wants to use the local airport as a place to refill their water tanks if there is a major wildfire in the area, Jason Trego, emergency management director, and Jonathon Goering, economic development director with Thrive Allen County, told county commissioners at their meeting Tuesday morning.
The large tanker planes need to be filled with water from a fire hydrant. Currently, the airport does not have such a hydrant
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