Why we don't waterbomb at night?

Summary: flying low to the ground at night is dangerous, because it's hard to see.

California has recently acquired helicopters capable of doing night fire missions.[1] But jets seem to be too dangerous. From article: &quot;Larry Groff of Windsor and another pilot, Lars Stratte of Redding, were killed when their CAL FIRE air tankers collided over a fire near Hopland in 2001.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firehouse.com&#x2F;operations-training&#x2F;wildland&#x2F;news&#x2F;21126605&#x2F;ca-spends-nearly-300m-on-nightflying-wildfire-helicopters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firehouse.com&#x2F;operations-training&#x2F;wildland&#x2F;news&#x2F;...</a>

As an ex-pilot: Too frigging dangerous!<p>OTOH, I&#x27;d be very happy for YOU to have a go at it.

As an alternative, would cloud seeding be feasible for this?

I think the future of fires needs to be the following: send the 5000 men when it&#x27;s only 1000 acres, not 400k acres. So detect fast and respond faster. Or heck 2 acres.