We are featuring an interview with Brett L'Esperance, CEO and one of the owners of Dauntless Air, an aerial firefighting company that recently moved its maintenance facilities to Pappy Boyington Field, in Northern Idaho.
An interview with Brett L'Esperance concerning Dauntless Air, a Minnesota-based company that flies 13 amphibious Single-Engine Air-tankers [“Fire Bosses”] equipped to fight forest fires.
What is also needed are key changes to current policy and suppression strategies that are crippling our country's initial response system. Here are five changes that would make a big difference.
SAVE A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR: THE NEW FIRE TRIANGLE SMOKEJUMPER - Publication of the National Smokejumper Association
This report summarizes the research approach and results and should be of interest to Forest Service officials and others who are concerned with ensuring that the nation's wildfire-fighting capabilities are maintained in an efficient and cost-effective way.
How to Strengthen Initial Response and Direct Attack Capabilities for Success in Today's World
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