A St. Paul company is helping fight wildfires in northern Minnesota. FOX 9’s Maury Glover shows us the new water scooping system that can shave critical minutes off of firefighting efforts.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – A St. Paul-based company is taking wildfire fighting to new heights with a water scooping system designed for Minnesota’s lakes.
Momentum Aeronautics’ new technology speeds up firefighting
What we know:
Momentum Aeronautics has developed an apparatus called Heatwave Floats, which lets pilots scoop up 800 gallons of water from nearby lakes in about 15 seconds before dropping it on wildfires…