Are there enough helicopters with tanks as opposed to bambi buckets for fire people to be able to say, "No you can't go to the area where the houses are on fire or about to be burned out, you only have a bucket". I do know that if that was the case and my house burned down, guess who would be straight to the nearest lawyer.
ME.......................
You can't tell me that the risk is that big. Over the years that Pilots have been using buckets, what percentage are dropped. There is risk in everything, you can only minimise it not eliminate it. The only way to eliminate it is to stay in bed. (Then you get bed sores, so there even that's wrong
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