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Carson Helicopters
S-61N
Fire King being fueled during
helitack
(
firefighting
using
helicopters
) operations in
Southern River, Western Australia
. The word "helitack", a
portmanteau
of
helicopter
and
attack
, first appeared in a 1956
Los Angeles Times
article describing a series of tests by the
Los Angeles County Fire Department
(LACoFD). Helicopters had been used in combating wildfires in California as early as 1947, and the LACoFD established the first helitack crew in 1957.
Photo:
Gnangarra
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