Boeing proposed a series of 12-engine tanker aircraft to transport oil from the field, the Boeing RC-1.
In the meantime, wildfires across the West are being fought with smaller, single-engine tankers, as well as helicopters, smokejumpers who parachute into burning areas and ground crews equipped with bulldozers.
An all-out air attack to slow a fire includes helicopters and smaller single-engine tankers.
Point Hope today has a spotless fire station, with a full-time staff of four and a fire engine, a tanker truck, and an ambulance.
The pilot, Gert Marais, 42, of Fort Benton, Mont., was killed April 15 when his single-engine air tanker nose-dived into the ground.
Mark Verlanic manages the Single Engine Air Tankers at the Billings, Montana, fire base: "In 2000, when Fort Howes got burned over, I was the IC3". "That means I was in charge of it.
"And it was that neat bit of trivia -- that crop dusters had once been used as single engine air tankers -- that then allowed us to step away from the world of racing and go explore this entirely different aspect of aviation".
He called for an evacuation of the nearby community of Pulga and ordered a slew of engines, water tankers, bulldozers and strike teams.
Brian McGrath, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said multiple fire engines, air tankers and helicopters are responding to the fire, which has sent thick plumes of white smoke into the area.
A partial list of products designed and produced in Norway is: stereo receivers, luxury yachts, diesel engines, oil tankers, patrol boats, oil production platforms, minicomputers, data terminals, telephones, modems, tractors, bulldozers, missiles, radar equipment and industrial robots.
If you're really keen, add the on-the-ground workers as well, some fire engines, fuel tankers, etc.
