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Kevin Pratt wrote:

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> errant divers.  When a fire is fought, it is customary for fire
> departments to evacuate those in potential danger, and to have ground
> support for the aircraft.  There are even FAA regulations for such
> operations.

You evidently haven't been out on to many forest fires.  I was on a 
number of them in the Sierra Nevada, with a hand-crew in the US Forest 
Service, and we never had "ground support" for fly-overs, and regularly 
got dumped on with the red powder, it's a retardant, used to be borite I 
think, and water from the helicopters.  When you get basic 40 training to 
get carded, you learn always to fall face down in the direction of the 
plane flying in at you with your hands over helmet so you don't get blown 
over from the force of the water or the retardant when it hits you.

Paul