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The aircraft was build to put out the wildfire in the forest. It is rated to carry up to 18,600 US gallons (70,000 L) of fire retarda[1]nt or water. They are the largest aerial firefighting aircraft in the world.

Operations

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One of the supertanker from Bolivia have been deployed to help putting out the wildfire in Amazon during 2019[2]

Refernce

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  1. ^ "Fire retardant", Wikipedia, 2019-10-28, retrieved 2019-10-31
  2. ^ Leman, Jennifer (2019-08-28). "This 747 Is Fighting Fires in the Amazon". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2019-10-31.