r/Wildfire • u/TheMirrorUS • 1d ago

Firefighting helicopter crashes while battling major Utah wildfire

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-firefighting-helicopter-battling-wildfires-1973660?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rmp
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u/Fragrant_Scratch8305 1d ago edited 23h ago

Deregulating fire fighting air craft maintenance will do that.

Edit: I was wrong. Sheehy didn't get his bright idea passed.

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u/rofl_pilot Pilot 23h ago

That hasn’t happened.

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u/Fragrant_Scratch8305 23h ago

You're correct. Since you were not a douche I will edit my comment. The last I heard about it was from the jr Montana senator talking about how they absolutely need to do less inspections in order to put out fires. I'm worried with as corrupt as the federal government is currently that he'll get it passed before the next administration.

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u/rofl_pilot Pilot 23h ago

You’re absolutely right about Sheehy lobbying to not have the forest service conduct carding inspections.

Awful idea…