Firefighting Airtankers Are Key "Initial Attack" Resources

Credit: NATIONAL INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTER
With more than 100 wildfires burning in Montana and eastern Idaho last summer, a concerted "initial attack" strategy was critical to preventing small, lightning-started fires from growing to conflagrations that might have devoured thousands of pristine forested acres--or homes and businesses...

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