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B.C. airtankers sought globally as wildfire season smoulders

October 31, 2023

With fall in full swing and hundreds of wildfires still burning in Canada during a record-breaking fire season, a B.C.-based company is taking a unique approach to extinguishing those flames by converting former commercial airplanes into firefighting aircraft. Neetu Garcha has an inside look at how these airtankers are made, and who's using them.

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