Firefighting aircraft scoop up ocean water to battle Palisades Fire

Footage shows firefighting tankers scooping up water from the Pacific Ocean to douse flames from the nearby Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades. Jan. 7, 2025. (Daniel Sparks via Storyful)

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[alexschonski]

Canadian planes from Quebec, proud to see my fellow Canadians helping the people of L.A.

[j.m.gratton]

Our Canadian boys from Quebec helping our American family... I wish Trump would see this and recognize that we're not bad people in Canada.

[dans]

These are Canadair CL-415 Water Bomber belonging to the Quebec Province. Isn't nice to have good neighbors/Alliied skilled pilots?

[unclejoe]

Water bombers from Quebec Ontario and British Columbia 🇨🇦

[Sch]

Thank you, everybody for helping with the fires in Los Angeles. Especially the firefighters here and the the firefighters that are coming from all over to help us out.

[kevinn]

Go Canada!! Planes from Quebec and BC!! Love seeing our guys helping out!!!

[jeanyvestheriault]

Those are Canadair CL-415, 30 million each, that can drop 1400 to 1600 gallon every 6 to 8 minutes instead of having to be loaded in an airfield, you see in Quebec we have lots of lakes and lots of forest, so it make sense to used those water bombers.

[slater]

Canada sent them yesterday. They are huge and amazing to see them in action.

[Cali_Flowers]

That's so amazing!! Skilled pilots right there! Go fire-fighters, go! 💗

[_Honda_CRX_Si]

i hope the only times i see these is online and in airshows, theyre awesome pieces of canadian ingenuity

[MarcRobichaud-wh]

Thèse are planes from Québec (province in Canada) only 2 are in California right now, due to an agreement with Californie but we have 12 more and it's winyer over here, we don't need them for the moment , you just have to ask i guess

[YVRpilot]

Trump insults us yet we turn the other cheek and help our neighbours. God Bless Canada and keep our pilots safe! 🇨🇦
❤️🤍❤️

[baby-puhm]

They have never seen a plane picking water, not even in movies😂!

[johnnywinter]

US are best at many things, but when comes the time to deal with some major disasters, your friendly neighbor up north that seemed useless suddenly comes in handy. Restoring power outages caused by hurricanes or freezing rain storms would take months, if not years, without the help of thousands of Canadian (Quebec) highly skilled and equipped linemen and their, working 16 hour shifts rebuilding your power grid from A to Z. When it comes to electricity, we rule big time. We are the best in the world at this job. We also like to help out our old friends south of the border when we are needed, of course.
And the other thing Canadians are appreciated worldwide, it's putting out wild fires! Here we come with our Canadair CL-415 water bombers, and or course their skilled and fearless hell-pilots with giant steel balls! These badass permanent test-pilots are your only option when all hell breaks loose like this! They're used to refill on small lakes, surrounded by dense northern forests and mountains, flying through violent turbulence caused by heat and thick smoke that reduces visibility... yet, they manage do drop their load (1, 850 US gallons) every 5 minutes, with a refill time of 14 seconds! So having a huge lake called ''Pacific Ocean'' as their water supply, without any obstacles whatsoever to deal with, this job is for sure just a walk in the park for these guys. And prepare yourself for a fishy smell, a lot of critters get swallowed by these yellow flying whales!
By the way, I just heard on the news that Canada sent more of these planes to the rescue.
Be patient, these aircrafts weren't designed for speed! Just hang in there, people! And good luck!

[NS_]

Canadian bombers lending a helping hand to our southern neighbours

[FINNBOGI]

We Canadians dont mess around. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦

[dieseldave]

These aircraft are not currently in production but soon the assembly lines will open because they do a good job.

[Paul-in-Viet-Nam]

I remember seeing news footage of that when I was a child in the 1980s.

[SweetSilver]

I’ve always wondered why they don’t use ocean water instead of our precious drinking water

[ct]

They drop the water all at once, or they spray it through a hose?