IFS officer's advice on using helicopters to fight forest fire goes viral

Susanta Nanda, Indian Forest Service officer, posted a video of a helicopter carrying water to extinguish forest fire on August 23. In his recent Twitter post, he said that an extraordinary skill is required to take water in helicopters and use it to extinguish a forest fire. said that is what should be done for forest fires in India as well. 

Helicopters to extinguish forest fires

IFS official recently took to his Twitter account to share a video in which helicopter is seen picking water and later dumping same to extinguish a forest fire. He also mentioned in  tweet that India should opt this effective strategy and skill while combating wildfires. This video received a lot of reactions from people. He furr mentioned in his tweet that fires have destroyed approximately 420 MHA of forest land since year 1990.
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Here's a look at tweet:

Many wildlife species, human life and flora have become endangered or pushed to extinction because of dangerous forest fires which cant be contained easily.

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tweet received many reactions among which first reaction h a video of India's IAF helicopters involved in a similar fire fighting mission. first reaction to Susanta Nanda's tweet mentioned, 'You kw IAF helicopters have this capability'.  Here's a video of a wildfire being contained by IAF in Tirumala Hills.

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