Seasoned rural firefighters have questioned the effectiveness of Labor and Liberal policies of deploying hugely-expensive water bombing aircraft for bushfire control in Queensland.
A senior Rural Fire Service commander in Far North Queensland said aircraft and helicopters were ineffective for fighting large bushfires but cost the taxpayer many millions every year.
“The larger aircraft cost $7000 or more an hour to drop water on fires which makes little difference to a big fire front. Helicopters are useless for firefighting but cost the earth,” the firefighter said.
“We have always used ground equipment like dozers and graders which are far cheaper and much more effective fighting bushfires in the far north. Aircraft need long airstrips and easily available water which is often not available and infrequency of dosing fires with water is useless.”
Meanwhile Labor politicians have trumpeted the aircraft as being a silver bullet for firefighting. Cairns News asks how many Labor mates and senior QFS staff are connected to these international aircraft companies?
A 10,000-litre LAT (large air tanker) and crew have touched down at Bundaberg Airport for bushfire season.
Being based in Bundaberg means the LAT can readily respond in coastal and inland areas across Queensland.
A Eurocopter and a waterbombing Blackhawk join the LAT in Bundaberg, supporting Rural Fire Service Queensland (RFSQ) staff and volunteer firefighters, and Queensland Fire & Rescue (QFR) personnel.
On standby at Toowoomba Airport for the fire season are two Bell 214B helicopters, two AirTractor AT-802 Fixed wing bombers, two air attack supervision platforms and a specialist intelligence gathering light helicopter.
This brings the Queensland Fire Department’s (QFD) contracted aerial fleet to 13 aircraft with a total waterbombing capacity of more than 32,000 litres.
QFD has access to approximately 150 additional aircraft, available on-call when needed.
The aircraft fleet is coordinated by QFD’s experienced State Air Desk, ensuring the best combination of aircraft, personnel and resources for major bushfires.
For advice on Bushfire Survival Plans, preparing property and bushfire season information, visit: fire.qld.gov.au/prepare/bushfires or getready.qld.gov.au
Labor Member for Bundaberg Tom Smith said:
“The LAT is an important fire season asset for the Bundaberg community and Queensland.
“The LAT and fleet of firefighting helicopters and fixed wings are a Labor government investment in doing what matters for bushfire safety.”
zzzz3856 without the fyerrrs, there are no MSM visuals to induce fear in weak minds of a fiery painful death; suggestions on how to combat fast approaching 2030 end times or to justify spending and sampling trillions of your public coins, in keyboard taps.
So the conjurors continually stir their cauldrons full of boiling bats shit whilst, except for storm surges on neap tides and flooded rivers, high tide lines remain at 1970’s levels with ancient sand dunes remaining in plain sight, with sone exceptions.
(I’ll) Double, double (your) toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake (your fate);
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful (mischievous) trouble,
Like a hell-broth (we’ll) boil and bubble.
Will Shakespeare in your face plebs.
As usual, just follow the money. also note the hand signal.
All that coloured stuff they put in the water is most likely from DuPont who is probably managing post-political careers for our politicians. Du Pont made their mark on the US during their civil war when they were selling black powder to both sides. But they are listed in Springmeier’s “13 illuminati families” ( of the USA ) and have a conspicuous part of Washington DC named after them, that is one of the points of the inverted pentagram in the central street layout.
First step is to get to the cause of the tinderbox conditions that lead to these abnormal fires. Look up, those aren’t contrails, they are chemtrails, solar radiation management, weather warfare. For more info, geoengineeringwatch.org with Dane Wigington
They need to change what they use to mark drop zones and perhaps the fires won’t be as intense.
Back burning is the best way to slow a fire.
Fight fire with fire but the tards at the top resist using this technique.
Why don’t they ask the Aboriginal people what to do, how to make fire breaks, control vegetation to stop a fire spreading, etc – they have been managing the land for thousands of years.
During the last huge bush fires the Aboriginal firefighters wanted a meeting with the PM (I think there were 42 of them) to teach Australian firefighters ways of preventing and controlling these fires – the PM would not meet with them.
I think that says it all. They don’t have a clue and won’t ask for help.
This is just normal for Australian politics…..keeping up appearances.
You just have to look like you care, so that the Two Party Preferred Scam elections will remain in place, funding politicians and top bureaucrats forever and ever amen !!
Where aircraft are good, from a Tasmanian perspective, is for a rapid first response to hold small fires until ground crew can get there.
They prevent the arsonists in charge from letting little fires get big enough to fight properly.
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