Fighting Wildfires in Canada with the Firehawk Helicopter
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- Over the past several years, many parts of Canada have seen increased wildfire activity, and there has been a growing need for larger, more capable aircraft that can help battle these blazes. Contour Helicopters of Langley, British Columbia, has recognized this need, and recently added a UH-60 Black Hawk to its fleet -- converted into a Firehawk helicopter -- to support wildfires in Canada.
The Firehawk (C-FHWK) is equipped with a Helitak 4,500-litre tank, capable of delivering three to four times more water per drop than the average bucket helicopter. Moreover, the night vision cockpit enables continued tanking operations into the night, when weather tends to be less active.
The Vertical team visited Contour to get a closer look at the company's new addition -- and see the aircraft in action.
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Video by Nicholas Thielmann
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Really proud to be part of Helitak's team to manufacture those awesome firetanks! ð ðŠ
Neat to see that tank systems have come a long way since 96-15728, which I had the pleasure to get qualified and crew from time to time.
beautiful, as always!!!
2:51 Firehawk, say Cheese ð
Firehawk: Opens "mouth"
When a private company can afford UH60's but the Canadian military can't.
I think Bradley Freisen put this together.ð
We can, we just donât want them.
@@dakota3847 â Not with this government. CAF officials constantly express the need to replace our vietnam era helis, which by the way are the only mode of army rotary transport behind a few chinooks. They're great and all, but their extended life "reliability" isn't why we won't replace them lol.
@@dakota3847no you canât lol
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The only FIREHAWK, whose name is Trade Marked by Lockheed Martin / Sikorsky is with the fixed belly tank with retractable snorkel.
I guess firefighting helicopters in Canada are not required to be bright colored?
Private sub contractor. #Hawkforhire ð
@@blueman5924 Here in the U.S. all fire fighting helicopters have to be bright or light colored.
Metro Vancouver should have been able to field a fleet of these like Los Angeles County but unlike Los Angeles County we have no leadership and continuous cost overruns ðĒ
Los Angeles County is a total f**king disaster...I wouldn't use then as an example to follow in ANY metric
They have the same 'far left' political issues that BC does, including cost overruns for almost everything
What I don't get is how Vancouver can't afford a police helicopter, while cities like Edmonton & Calgary have mutiple? Even Saskatoon has one for crying out loud
Sadly, it don't paid to put out a wildfire on the first day. That is why they are always out of control.
Bull5hit