De Havilland calls for national water bomber fleet as it scrambles to meet demand
toronto.citynews.ca
MONTREAL — On July 13, a pair of Canadair water bombers touched down on the Seine River, skimming along its surface to refill their water tanks as they battled a wildfire south of Paris.

Link is to article about Canada’s great need for firefighting aircraft.

Call me crazy… but 99% of the time wouldn’t a shared firefighting aircraft fleet shared between Australia and Canada or perhaps a European nation only be needed in one or the other place at any one given time of year??

  • mycatsays@aussie.zone
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    22 hours ago

    My understanding (which may be wrong) is that in the last few years we’ve increasingly seen fires outside of the expected fire season. For example, our awful 2019-2020 fire season began in August, iirc; and the fire that gutted parts of LA was at the beginning of January. With this happening, you can’t really afford to have critical resources on the other side of the planet if you want to be protected at home. It’s going to get harder even to send a team to help the other hemisphere, some years; though I’m sure both countries will still try to do that much.