Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada? (toronto.citynews.ca)

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Link is to article about Canada's great need for firefighting aircraft.

Call me crazy... but 99% of the time wouldn't a shared firefighting aircraft fleet shared between Australia and Canada or perhaps a European nation only be needed in one or the other place at any one given time of year??

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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 9 points 20 hours ago

Can't speak for Canadian news, but Australian news gives it a mention every now and then. It's been going on for so long it's kind of old news to most at this point.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

I've often read about crews coming and going but not equipment like planes. We do hear of power company trucks heading to the US to help out in disasters there.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

https://www.cdnfirefighter.com/canada-sends-military-transport-plane-crew-to-fight-australian-wildfires/ here's one from 2020 when my state was pretty much entirely fire. There's a number of articles from over the years, mainly around really bad fire seasons.

[-] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Very cool thanks for sharing the link!

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