Fighting forest fires with fire: Pyrotechnics and flaming Ping-Pong balls

Kevin Parkinson, a wildfire operations officer in Alberta, ignites slow-burning forest fires with a special kind of ammunition — thousands of tiny fireballs shot from the air.

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