Tanker dropping retardant on Flying Bucket Fire burning west of Maricopa

Firefighters continue efforts to extinguish the “Flying Bucket Fire,” which officials believe was started by people target shooting in the area on Monday.

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Now THOSE are some LEGIT chemtrailz!

[@gs1100ed]

Excellent camera work. Wonder what the vantage point was? Helicopter perhaps?

[@joeg5414]

0:02 "Live pictures here from our news chopper."

[@gs1100ed]

@@joeg5414 thank you. I missed that

[@rustyclaymore1105]

Spot on drop, you can see the stream from the edge of the fireline. That's some amazing flying.

[@cannonfodder4812]

Always loved the DC10

[@RollingWiththeflow]

I don't believe target practice started this fire! That's NONSENSE

[@grege3638]

The fire appears to have been started on the flying bucket ranch which is where Dillion precision test fires the products they supply to the us govt. 🤔

[@FlightData101]

Why not? It’s super dry out there and a few sparks can be more than enough when it’s windy. Plus we also don’t know what type of firearm was being tested, it could have been using some type of incendiary round.

[@RollingWiththeflow]

@@FlightData101 I've shot 100 tracer rounds into very very dry bails of hay intentionally trying to start a fire and couldn't get it to light!, So that assumption that it was started by gun practice from a gun range is complete BS!

[@FlightData101]

@@RollingWiththeflow stop acting like this was some kind of anti-gun axe grinding. It wasn’t. First of all, bales of hay are dense and don’t burn easily even when they’re dry. I’ve pulled hundreds of intact bales out of the remnants of a barn where nothing much else was left. Thirty years around fire has proved to me that they start for a whole myriad of reasons most folks would find absurd. For all we know the target is what caught fire. People use all kinds of goofy stuff as targets including old jerry cans.

[@robertriggs75]

Tracers definitely can start a fire

[@sdavrider]

Epic bravery and beauty.

[@GageTucker-of2wd]

I saw the dc-10 tanker on flight radar 24 but dang that shot is nice

[@Delta_NWAB747fan]

At the time of writing this comment (5/18/24), this aircraft, other firefighting aircraft, and some Helicopters are active north of Rio Verde on FlightRadar24. Another fire? Regardless, such an iconic aircraft and I’m so happy some others are also still in use today.

[@dkajj]

I was told I can't say that word anymore

[@mannytheseacow7381]

10 seconds of a tanker dropping retardant on Flying Bucket Fire west of Maricopa. 3:37 of a tanker NOT dropping retardant on flying bucket fire west of Maricopa.

[@Sean-C]

What happened to the 747 tanker?

[@paulshepherd8295]

747 Supertanker is no longer in service and is being (or has been) converted to a freighter. Not enough fire-fighting work to make it viable.

[@A3Kr0n]

The wings fell off and started another fire when it crashed.

[@paulshepherd8295]

@@A3Kr0n That was a C-130.

[@joeg5414]

@@A3Kr0n why answer so confidently when you have no clue what you're talking about?

[@jessedorpinghaus8089]

…hmm, I’ve never seen a flying bucket fire

[@sethsisneros1388]

I didn't know they could drop my sister on fires

[@gunhog11]

Flying bucket, the Dillon airport

[@Mark-vf8op]

Your comment is over exaggerating

[@robhavock9434]

They are chopping up 747,s at raf st,athens south wales which are needed for fire fighting and can be converted to fire fighting purposes, ejecton seats can be fitted for out of hours aircraft to fight global warming fires so why chop them up ? .

[@FlightData101]

It was tried but the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. They couldn’t get the retardant system to meet the USFS coverage level requirements.

[@Pgd10020]

Direct hit

[@socaljarhead7670]

Diesel 10

[@danielcrescenzo354]

The DC-10! Renowned for falling out of the sky.

[@nrakma]

So gunfire started the fire. How appropriate for Arizona.

[@MurderBong]

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