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Coloradans are developing the state’s newest firefighting tool, transforming a Black Hawk to a Firehawk

The $24 million helicopter is specially designed “to put out brush fires before they become forest fires”

ColoradoÕs Firehawk helicopter, a Blackhawk helicopter ...
Andy Cross, The Denver Post
Colorado’s Firehawk helicopter, a Blackhawk helicopter being retrofitted, is pictured at United Rotorcraft in Centennial on July 21, 2022.
Nick Coltrain - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 5, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Getting your player ready...
Sitting in a Centennial hangar is a Black Hawk helicopter far from fit to fly. By the end of the year, it'll be transformed to special wildfire fighting Firehawk.
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