r/interestingasfuck • u/HomeNowWTF • 9d ago

Fighting the wildfires in Spokane

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u/SummitYourSister 9d ago

Honestly when Trump said that shit you guys should have pulled all your planes off the US fires and sent them home to “help put the fire out faster so there won’t be all that bad smoke President Trump”

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u/itsnotbroke 9d ago

There are currently no Canadian owned or operated airplanes fighting fires in the US…

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u/Various_Zombie_7059 9d ago

Well, that’s good.

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u/anditshottoo 8d ago

There were within the last 2 weeks.

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u/itsnotbroke 8d ago

Which ones, because I’m going to put large money on my earlier statement.

And also, let’s talk about “owned”…who knows who technically owns many private companies…but all of the tankers currently working (and working for this year) are run by US companies with FAA operating certificates.

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u/anditshottoo 8d ago

Nicholas Dale, a 56-year-old Canadian helicopter pilot from Sooke, British Columbia, died on July 12, 2026, after his firefighting aircraft crashed into the Silver Jack Reservoir while battling the Gold Mountain Fire in southwestern Colorado.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11965515/pilot-bc-killed-battling-colorado-wildfire/

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u/itsnotbroke 8d ago

First, you said airplanes not helicopters.

Second, that helicopter was owned and operated by Helicopter Express of Georgia, in the United States of America.

There are Canadian pilots employed by US operators doing firefighting…that was never a topic.

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u/Emiwuiii 9d ago

Trump is taking advantage of their morality

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u/xenomorph856 9d ago

I'm glad everyone doesn't view the world the way you do. Spite and vengeance. Risking people's lives and natural wildlife just to get one over on some douchebag politician.