ERDA, Utah — As wildfire season continues in Utah, aircraft are being utilized to help fight fires from the air.
At the Tooele Valley Airport in Erda, you will find a couple of single-engine air tankers — also known as SEATs — parked near the runway.
“These are firefighting airplanes. They can carry up to 800 gallons of fire retardant with them,” said Joshua Archibald, the unit aviation manager with the Bureau of Land Management’s West Desert District. “So what they’re able to do is slow the fire down and give firefighters more time to respond to it.”
