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Sarasota, Florida -- It was a bad situation brought under control quickly before it was able to get worse.
Chief Wayne Balcom, Sarasota County Fire Rescue: "With the heavy winds and the traffic we were concerned with it."A power transformer blew up and sparked, and when those sparks hit the dry grass it didn't take long. Sarasota county fire rescue immediately called for their new air tanker fearing that if the fire were to spread, they'd have to shut down I-75.
Chief Balcom: "Does it make your job easier? Yes, a lot easier, and we are the only agency in the Tampa Bay area to have it. So on a day like this when the winds are kicking, yea, it really comes in handy."The Chopper belongs to the Sheriffs Department, but the underbelly is all fire department with the ability to suck up 250 gallons of water in less than 3 minutes and drop it with pinpoint accuracy.
Chief Balcom: "They have a ciphering hose and they ciphon it to a holding tank that is mounted beneath the helicopter."I'm wondering - is that hose able to do just simple ciphering, or can it do complex ciphering like 3rd order equations?
Using the tanker stopped what could have been a major fire under the worst of circumstances.
Bill McGinty, Sarasota County: "The fire department says with these dry windy conditions, we can expect more of these fires until the rainy season gets here."Bill McGinty, Tampa Bay's 10 News
This is a professional news organization?
Chief Wayne Balcom, Sarasota County Fire Rescue: "With the heavy winds and the traffic we were concerned with it."A power transformer blew up and sparked, and when those sparks hit the dry grass it didn't take long. Sarasota county fire rescue immediately called for their new air tanker fearing that if the fire were to spread, they'd have to shut down I-75.
Chief Balcom: "Does it make your job easier? Yes, a lot easier, and we are the only agency in the Tampa Bay area to have it. So on a day like this when the winds are kicking, yea, it really comes in handy."The Chopper belongs to the Sheriffs Department, but the underbelly is all fire department with the ability to suck up 250 gallons of water in less than 3 minutes and drop it with pinpoint accuracy.
Chief Balcom: "They have a ciphering hose and they ciphon it to a holding tank that is mounted beneath the helicopter."I'm wondering - is that hose able to do just simple ciphering, or can it do complex ciphering like 3rd order equations?
Using the tanker stopped what could have been a major fire under the worst of circumstances.
Bill McGinty, Sarasota County: "The fire department says with these dry windy conditions, we can expect more of these fires until the rainy season gets here."Bill McGinty, Tampa Bay's 10 News
This is a professional news organization?
