Apple to donate $1 million plus matched employee contributions for California wildfire rel...
Apple is donating $1 million outright and matching worker donations two-to-one to support relief efforts for the wildfires scorching northern Califoria.
The company revealed the details of its donations to the San Francisco Chronicle, following up on a Tuesday Twitter post by Apple CEO Tim Cook. At the time, Cook said only that Apple was "donating to aid relief efforts."
In fact Apple still hasn't said which charities it's supporting, although Apple typically favors the American Red Cross unless there are specific reasons to fund another group. Other major Bay Area technology firms -- namely Facebook, Google, and Uber -- have pledged donations to parties like the Napa Valley Community Foundation and the Red Cross California Wildfires Fund.
Fires have engulfed the Napa, Sonoma, and Santa Rosa regions of California, killing at least 23 people and causing massive property damage. While the media has often concentrated on wineries and wealthy residential areas impacted by the fires, many low-income communities have been torched as well.
The disaster is so widespread that smoke has spread into San Francisco, a city normally isolated from the effect of wildfires.
The company revealed the details of its donations to the San Francisco Chronicle, following up on a Tuesday Twitter post by Apple CEO Tim Cook. At the time, Cook said only that Apple was "donating to aid relief efforts."
In fact Apple still hasn't said which charities it's supporting, although Apple typically favors the American Red Cross unless there are specific reasons to fund another group. Other major Bay Area technology firms -- namely Facebook, Google, and Uber -- have pledged donations to parties like the Napa Valley Community Foundation and the Red Cross California Wildfires Fund.
Fires have engulfed the Napa, Sonoma, and Santa Rosa regions of California, killing at least 23 people and causing massive property damage. While the media has often concentrated on wineries and wealthy residential areas impacted by the fires, many low-income communities have been torched as well.
The disaster is so widespread that smoke has spread into San Francisco, a city normally isolated from the effect of wildfires.
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Also, fire can spread much faster than you think. Early detection and early arrival of firefighting isn't necessarily going to have a huge impact.
Sometimes these are started naturally by things such as lightning. Its not always a person who starts these. However yes, there should be severe penalties should someone get caught. Kinda hard to catch someone I think though.
Are they really? Because don't the smaller ones fly right low over a lake and grab water that way? It would be really SSLLLLOOWWWW to have to land, and fill up the tanks on the plan. That would take a very long time. So Googling some Info, it looks like it hold 19,200 gallons or water or fire suppressant. They need a bunch of fire trucks just to get this thing filled up, which I guess it taking 30 minutes. So it's landing to fill up, it can also land again if it's still full of water which can happen.
http://fireaviation.com/2017/01/27/how-to-refill-a-supertanker/
I expected something like this!!!
For the area covered, the 747 will take care it faster when comparing the turn-around times for the smaller aircraft. It'll take a few or several rounds of the smaller aircraft to cover the same area. I was guessing it would take 45 minutes to refill a 747, but I'll take your 30 minutes. But I see in the comments from your link, they got the refill time down to 15 minutes.