“Yeah. They’ve got a couple water sources, so she might be on the hose. I know they dropped mud on her earlier.”
“Why would they drop mud on Rowan?”
His laugh broke out, long, delighted.
“Sorry. I meant the fire. Mud’s what we call the retardant the tanker drops.
Believe me, no smoke jumper wants to be under that.”
Chasing Fire
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Glenn Beltz, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.
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“It’s thick pink goo, and burns if it hits your skin.”
“Why pink? It’s kind of girlie.”
He grinned as she got out a skillet.
“They add ferric oxide to make it red, but it looks like pink rain when it’s coming down.
The color marks the drop area.”
Chasing Fire