chief executive officer and member of the board of directors at Dauntless Air - Appleton, MN, US
Dauntless Air is an aerial firefighting company that exists to protect people, land and property. Our vision is to win the war against wildfires.The US wildfire landscape is evolving. Climate change, unhealthy forests and expanding human development in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are combining to create costlier fires that are burning and spreading much more quickly than they did 20 years ago. Faced with this reality, aerial firefighting strategies and aircraft mobilization tactics must be revisited. History shows that to best protect people, land and property against wildland fire, public entities must bolster rapid and direct initial attack capability by incorporating a network of smaller, lower cost, forward-attack aircraft into firefighting arsenals. Doing so will prepare agencies and the country to rapidly respond to and contain wildland fires in the expanding WUI before small blazes escape and become multi-acre, multi-million-dollar devastations. Only then can fire suppression costs begin to decrease, freeing up critical funds for the forest health management programs that help reduce fuel loads in our wildlands and restore the vitality of our nation's forests.At Dauntless Air (formerly Aero Spray, Inc.), we are committed to winning the war against wildfires alongside ground crews and other aerial forces. With decades of experience flying the nation's largest and most technologically advanced fleet of Fire Boss aircraft, you can count on Dauntless to fly more efficiently, perform surgical drops on a fire and forge ahead until our mission is accomplished. At Dauntless Air, we fly to win. To learn more, visit our website at www.dauntlessair.com and download our paper, Transforming Aerial Firefighting for a Changing Environment, or reach out to us at 320-297-9088 to find out how you can strengthen your initial response and direct air attack capabilities.