Thor returns to hammer fires from above

the sledge utilizing pioneer of the sky has returned as the NSW Rural Fire Service gets readied for the bushfire season. 

Thor, a Hercules C130, which can drop more than 15,000 liters of water has spent the northern side of the equator summer in the US. 

It gave a fly-over appearing at Richmond RAAF Base of its firefighting limit on Thursday. 

Thor will supplement more than 100 flying machine honest to goodness contracted to the RFS for the months ahead. 

NSW RFS Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers requested that occupants careful and to start setting up their homes as the hot environment arrives. 

He said the state had experienced its third wettest winter on record, which could provoke an intensified flame peril this mid year