The presence of this helicopter in the catastrophe was managed by our company, in its alliance with the Erickson Inc. Company.<\/p>\n
Among the six ships evaluated, it was the only one that obtained 100% effectiveness. During the 100 days of operation in eight fires in the VIII regi\u00f3n, Elvis launched 1,600,000 liters of water in 221 discharges, with high precision.<\/strong><\/p>\n “Beyond the evaluations, what corresponds now is to prepare ourselves as a country for the next fire season, making the politics converge with the technical decisions and budgets to deal with these emergencies in an appropriate way”<\/em>, highlights our Commercial Manager, Armando Weinberger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sikorsky S-64 SkyCrane, popularly known as “Elvis”, was the best evaluated aircraft by the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) in the fight against forest fires that affected the center-south of Chile last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n