Colorado Springs-based Boeing 747 SuperTanker fights California fire for 1st time

Global SuperTanker Service’s Boeing 747-400 has been activated to fight a California wildfire, marking its first use in the United States.
The company says the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection exercised a call-when-needed contract Wednesday to fight a fire in Butte County about 10 miles east of Lake Oroville. At the time, the SuperTanker was at McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento.
The company says it made two individual drops of 8,500 gallons of fire retardant tha