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1880 - Pico Oil Spring Mine Section 2 patented by R.F. Baker and Edward F. Beale [story]
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osbysuperscooper2Fire Chief Daryl Osby will ask the Board of Supervisors Tuesday to authorize him to spend up to $8.5 million annually for five years continue leasing CL-415 SuperScoopers from the Quebec government.

The county has been leasing firefighting aircraft from Quebec for 22 years. Lately it has been leasing two SuperScoopers for a 3-month period beginning Sept. 1. The Quebec government is the only entity that leases them, and the contract comes with personnel to operate and maintain them.

Separately, at the request of Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, the board has called on the Fire Department to reassess its leasing and purchase options for firefighting aircraft.

 

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  1. Dorene Tapp Dorene Tapp says:

    I would think our state would purchase some instead of wasting money on a useless bullet train.

  2. This is a repost of something I wrote: The $30 million (US$) Superscoopers (SS) are a popular plane with the public and politicians. They are big, yellow and new. The question is are they the best choice. If you compare them with a S70 Firehawk helicopter, which L.A. County Fire all ready has 3, the Firehawk comes up on top. The SS was designed for the Canadian northwest where lakes are prevalent and there are hundreds of miles of open space. Here in SoCal we don’t have as many lakes, more mountains and have the ability to be closer to the fire. The Firehawk can refill anywhere the Superscoopers can as well as a small lake, pool, pond or at a helispot where there are no lakes. Even though it carries 1,000 gallons vs. the 1,600 for the SS, with it’s faster turn around time so it can put much more water on a fire per hour than the SS. Other advantages include the Firehawk can get into areas that the SS can’t, they are more accurate, they are already in the system so maintenance and training is established, they can be staged all over the county at their helispots and they can be used for other missions like search and rescue and air ambulance. The choice should be made by the firefighting experts not politicians. The SS is a good firefighting tool, but is it the best tool for us? For the money in my opinion, more Firehawks would be a much better choice.

  3. Hardin Rich says:

    I agree Michael Mazzetti.

  4. Defer money from the high speed rail and get more DC-10 planes. Then buy super scooper planes. If not we design our own. Stop renting plus you have to pay for the Canadian pilots to fly them down.

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