As the worst fires in Los Angeles’s history have burned at least 30,000 acres as of Thursday, Jan. 9, Missoula’s Neptune Aviation has aerial resources fighting the blaze.
Three of Neptune’s planes have been dispatched in the southwest since May of last year with each firefighting jet carrying 3,000 gallons of retardant.
Neptune says their planes are ideal for mountainous steep terrain, and the turbulence-filled air associated with fire environments…