The largest and fastest of the water bombers is the turbofan jet Ilyushin-76TD (Il-76). It can reach a fire anywhere in the world within 12 hours. Carrying 11 gallons (42,000 litres) of water and fire retardants – 4 times as much as a C-130 – it can, in one run, dump enough water to cover 6 double-wide football fields, or an area 0.7 miles (1,1 km) in length.
See: World’s largest water bomber and heli firefighters :
http://didyouknow.org/firefighters/
42,000 liters is 14 lots of 3,000 liters . . .
and all that for only 10k US + fuel an hour
Why not use the Russkies and nuke the fires with Gods gift to fire fighting?