{"id":19212,"date":"2022-11-20T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T06:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2022-11-20T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T06:09:06","slug":"firefighting-air-tanker-to-touch-down-after-marathon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/firefighting-air-tanker-to-touch-down-after-marathon-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighting air tanker to touch down after marathon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a three month deployment in support of the US fire service\u2019s firefighting efforts, the NSW Rural Fire Service\u2019s (RFS)\u00a0<em>Marie Bashir<\/em>\u00a0Large Air Tanker will arrive in Sydney this afternoon.<br>\u00a0<br>Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience Steph Cooke said the plane and a crew of aviation personnel have spent hundreds of hours in the air, fighting 37 fires across six US states and dropping more than 1.23 million litres of suppressants.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWhat was initially a four week posting for the\u00a0<em>Marie Bashir<\/em>\u00a0and her crew was extended to more than three months, undertaking life-saving work in order to protect American communities,\u201d Ms Cooke said.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cOur thoughts are with impacted communities including in Idaho, Nevada and California, as well as the firefighters and other personnel who battled the recent fires.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cNSW firefighters are all too familiar with the threat of bush fires and have a proud history of helping others, both here in Australia and overseas.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cOur personnel and resources are among the best in the world and the request to have our Large Air Tanker help out is testament to this.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>RFS Commissioner Rob Rogers said NSW has the nation\u2019s largest aerial firefighting fleet and continues to assist interstate and international firefighting agencies.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be able to provide this support to US fire authorities for the second year in a row,\u201d Commissioner Rogers said.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cWe welcome the\u00a0<em>Marie Bashir<\/em>\u00a0back to home soil at RAAF Base Richmond, where she will be ready for dispatch in NSW and interstate this bush fire season as warmer conditions begin to return.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>The 737 Large Air Tanker has a cruising speed of 850 kilometres per hour and can drop more than 15,000 litres of fire suppressants at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a three month deployment in support of the US fire service\u2019s firefighting efforts, the NSW Rural Fire Service\u2019s (RFS)\u00a0Marie Bashir\u00a0Large Air Tanker will arrive in Sydney this afternoon.\u00a0Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience Steph Cooke said the plane and a crew of aviation personnel have spent hundreds of hours in the air, fighting 37 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/firefighting-air-tanker-to-touch-down-after-marathon-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefighting air tanker to touch down after marathon mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19213,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions\/19213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}