Air Tanker Pilots Meet in Reno - KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe
News Weather, Video -  Air Tanker Pilots Meet in Reno  Posted:
Updated:  They do some of the most dangerous work to save our
land and property. They are brave pilots who year after year
take to the skies against imposing odds. Marshall Graves was one
of them. As he told us, being an air tanker pilot "Is very
similar to what I did in the Navy. You know, that kind of
mission-driven work. With us, it's like a war in the summer.
It's very much like how the Marine Corps does business."  And
like a war, it's dangerous work. Crashes happen almost every
year. Like most everyone at the Associated Aerial Firefighters
organization meeting at the Eldorado, Chris Holm has had his
share of close calls. But he has people to save…Chris was once a
firefighter on the ground. Now he fights fires from the cockpit,
doing what he could to protect the firemen on the ground: "I've
got empathy for those guys who are carrying 150-pound packs on a
110 degree day and hiking in