Fire Eaters: The People and Aircraft Combatting Wildfires Over the Last Century

The riveting history of how aircraft have transformed the fighting of wildfires.

Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run — until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian “H-Boats” in 1924, aircraft have become indispensable in detecting and extinguishing wildfires. Fire Eaters tells the incredible stories of the Ontario Provincial Air Service, the first government aerial fire suppression organization in histo...