Shots Fired: Residents Shoot At Wildfire UAS In Washington. Forest Service Files To Rescind Roadless Rule. “Hello?” Missoula Dispatch Coms Go Down.

On Today’s Show:

• Red Flags are forecast into the weekend across the PNW, Northern California, Idaho, and Montana. Full operational update.

• UAS operators attached to a wildfire in Washington report that locals fired on their equipment while they conducted damage assessments for FEMA wildfire relief. They then suspended all operations.

• The USDA announced that the Forest Service has filed a rule to rescind the Roadless Area Rule to better manage wildfire risk across forested landscapes.

• How dry is it? A report from Idaho on a wildfire starting while helitack was attaching a Bambi bucket to a helicopter, after a landing light sparked the grass underneath.

• Full report on the Tender rollover in Oregon on the Fox Fire leading to an air med flight.

• Missoula, Montana dispatch lost all landline functionality during IA response this week. The issue is ongoing.

• Multiple people arrested in Canada on arson charges after a string of wildfires in British Columbia.

• Plus more.

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