Australian air tanker and crew members in Sacramento to help Cal Fire this summer
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KCRA News Cal Fire is getting help from the land down under as the state's fire season begins to ramp up. A 737 Boeing air tanker and crew from New South Wales in Australia are in Sacramento for the summer, stationed at McClellan Air Tanker Base. "We actually had a need for one additional large air tanker and there was only one left in the world we could possibly use," Stu Sprung, the chief of flight operations for Cal Fire, said. "We reached out to Australia, to New South Wales, and asked if they would be willing to come here for a 90-day contract to help be here for our fire season." The plane used to be owned by Southwest Airlines for commercial travel, was converted into an air tanker by Coulson Aviation. It has a 4,000-gallon fire retardant capacity. Many of the air tankers Cal Fire uses hold 3,000 gallons. Australians, Americans, and Canadians are working together on the plane.
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