Aerial firefighting companies have rushed aircraft to Southern California to battle a wind-whipped inferno that has burned neighbourhoods to the ground and that by some estimates could be the USA’s costliest blaze.
A diverse fleet of firefighting, surveillance and spotting aircraft are crisscrossing the skies above the Palisades Fire and other blazes burning north of Los Angeles.
Those aircraft include De Havilland Canada CL-series water bombers, Dash 8-400 fire-retardant-carrying tankers and Beechcraft King Air support aircraft. Several big-jet tankers are also on scene, including BAe 146s, a McDonnell Douglas MD-87 and the biggest gun of all, a DC-10.
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