Dauntless Air

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 ...