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Hot-refuelling stop for firefighting chopper

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PHOTOGRAPHER, pilot and Central Highlands councillor Robert Cassidy has shared this photo of a Bell Iroquois firefighting helicopter refuelling at Bothwell on Saturday while on deployment to a bushfire at Woods Lake near Interlaken in the highlands. “It was doing what is called ‘hot refueling’,” Robert said. “To minimise the time it spends on the ground, it gets refueled whilst the turbine engine is running at idle and rotorblades still turning.…
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follow.it broke the news in on Monday, February 16, 2026.
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