Putting Out Fires With Fire! 😳

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Putting Out Fires With Fire! 😳
When this helicopter is supposed to put out a forest fire, it starts another one. But it is actually doing this to put out the fire. The reason why forest fires cannot be extinguished quickly is because they spread rapidly over a large area in a short time. The authorities do not have enough resources to put out fires of this size. That's why they use this system called counter-fire. What they do is to start a controlled fire that they can easily extinguish in the direction the forest fire is going and then put it out and take control of the situation.
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The tool is called a helitorch, and the tactic as described sounds more like "backfiring" (as opposed to "burning out", those are different things).

"Counter fire" isn't a term we use.

Source: me, with 20 years of wildland experience.

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