The Largest Water Bombers The fact is that Earth is getting
hotter by the day. The 2000s was the warmest decade in a
thousand years. Global temperature keeps increasing, creating
conditions that intensify wildfire danger, by warming and drying
out vegetation and by stirring the winds that spread fires. Fast
fires are hard to contain and likely to expand into residential
areas. Already about 1 billion people live in areas prone to
natural disasters. The United States suffer from one of the
highest fire death rates in the industrialized world, with more
than 2 million fires reported each year. More than 4,000
Americans, including 100 firefighters, lose their lives and
another 26,500 are injured annually as the result of fire. Fire
Departments around the world call on Water Bombers to fight
large fires. They actually are more cost-efficient than most
other fire fighting methods because they are carrying huge
amounts of water and retardants.