BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 60.9% saturation with 159 hits. Analysis detected 993 faulty-reasoning hits from 261 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.2% and a BS Rank of 85% (3,884 of 25,564 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 84.80% of the video peer group.
This video taken high above rural Oregon follows the flight of an Air Force C-130 heading towards skies blackened by wildfire smoke.
>> If you see a two and five fly over, that's us.
>> The view from inside the cockpit shows what the pilot sees as they prepare to dump flame retardant on one of Oregon's wildfires.
Major Kiet Tran is the mission commander for a team stationed at the Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs.
>> My job is to make sure that everybody is in the loop on what are the operation needs.
>> Since early July, the team, along with two C-130 Hercules aircraft, have been temporarily flying out of Klamath Falls helping in Oregon's firefighting efforts.
Each plane has six crew members including two pilots.
>> Well, we drop the retardant right next to you know, the dozer lines are really just ditches uh to help stop the fire from spreading further.
>> Major Tran says they've made about 75 drops thus far on fires burning all over the state.
>> Dropped it almost 200,000 gallons of of retardant.
>> It takes the C-130s about 15 minutes to reload flame retardant before they are up in the skies again making multiple drops a day wherever they are needed.
Major Tran tells us it's a rewarding mission for him and his team.
>> It's something that we love doing, you know, protecting the community, protecting the people, and making sure that we safeguard people's livelihood.
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