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Hey everyone. This article could use a lot of help. It's based only on a little information I've picked up over the years and is probably regionally-oriented (southern California). Someone with more knowledge please dig in. Rsduhamel 18:42, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• hopefully it'll be ok, now it's mentioned on the front page.

Don't forget to mention the divers/swimmers scooped up by planes/helicopters and dumped into the fire! Well, at least state that it is an urban myth. :Nostrada 23:21, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

When mentioning US-specific facts, please mark it as such (example: the fact that public agencies in the US lease planes from private owners). David.Monniaux 19:33, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion/split proposal

I'm currently working on greatly expanding this article at one of my sandboxen, and it has become apparent to me that what is most logical, to keep articles to reasonable length, is to have this article as a general overview of the practice, with at least two dauther articles, "Air tanker" to cover the history and techniques of fixed-wing ops, and "Helitack" to cover helicopter ops. I probably won't be ready for another month or so to go live with these changes, so there's plenty of time for folks to put their input - or flaming darts - in. AKRadecki^Speaketh 20:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)