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2. Helicopter bucket - Wikipedia

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   Some buckets can include fire retardant foam or the ability to pump water from the bucket into an internal tank. Smaller collapsible buckets can use water sources as shallow as 1 foot (30.5 cm). Worldwide, the term monsoon bucket is widely used and accepted as a generic term. In the United States, this type of bucket is officially referred to ...

3. Helitack - Wikipedia

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   The bucket was a converted 45-imperial-gallon (205 L) drum with a trap door in the bottom that was actuated by the pilot in flight. [7] In the early 1960s the California Division of Forestry (now known as CALFIRE) began water bucketing trials. Testing was also done on a 105-U.S.-gallon (400 L) water tank mounted on a Bell 47.

4. Glossary of wildfire terms - Wikipedia

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   Bambi bucket A collapsible bucket used for lifting and moving water or fire retardant with a helicopter. barrier Any obstruction to the spread of fire. Typically an area or strip devoid of combustible fuel. base 1. A staging or command center for fire operations. 2. The starting location of a fire. 3.

5. Aerial firefighting and forestry in southern Australia

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   They can also pick up water from shallow dams or rivers using snorkels to fill their belly tanks or dipping a collapsible bucket suspended on a line. [36] The first water bucket was probably developed in Nelson, British Columbia in the mid-1950s and became operational in about 1962. The bucket design was a converted 200 litre drum with a trap ...

6. Man getting packages finds missing babies in a ditch - AOL

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   A man found 4-month-old and 5-month-old baby girls in a ditch outside his Indianapolis home after they were kidnapped in a vehicle earlier in the day.

7. What is an Alberta clipper? - AOL

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   Residents of the Midwest, Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast may have heard of the term "Alberta clipper" when a winter storm is rolling through the region, but what is the meteorology behind the term?