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User currently offline76794p From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 341 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1775 times:

Due to the massive wildfires in Bastrop County, the DC-10 tanker has been brought in to provide air support. The Tanker is parked at AUS until tomorrow, when it will start flying missions to drop retardant over the fires. It will be a good opportunity to get pics


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User currently offlineFly-K From Germany, joined May 2000, 3120 posts, RR: 53
Reply 1, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1673 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

I hope they're successful in finally containing the massive fire. I lived in Bastrop for a year in 1988/89 (as a foreign exchange student) and heard the house I was staying has burnt. To imagine the massive DC-10 over Bastrop, wow...

PS: according to local media, it is still unclear if and when the aircraft will be used. They talked about today (Friday) but it might be used to fight other fires, not necessarily the Bastrop one. Apparently it is not that easy to set up the infrastructure for the retardants.

[Edited 2011-09-09 08:17:06]


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User currently offline76794p From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 341 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (1 year 8 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 1655 times:

Quoting Fly-K (Reply 1):

PS: according to local media, it is still unclear if and when the aircraft will be used. They talked about today (Friday) but it might be used to fight other fires, not necessarily the Bastrop one. Apparently it is not that easy to set up the infrastructure for the retardants.

From what i have read locally from houston spotters, the DC-10 is headed just north of houston to help contain the fires near Magnolia.


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