0:18
Speaker A
2:14 - 2:33
"We called for retardant and the helicopters and they dropped. The winds were just made it ineffective. The retardant blew, you know, 200ft past where they were trying to drop"
“We called for retardant and the helicopters and they dropped. The winds were just made it ineffective. The retardant blew, you know, 200ft past where they were trying to drop”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 2:14 – 2:33
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Big Lake
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
We called for retardant and the helicopters and they dropped. The winds were just made it ineffective. The retardant blew, you know, 200ft past where they were trying to drop fire, bumped up against Miller's Reach road, jumped the road and then from there on it was just fairly continuous fuel.
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