** FILE ** A P3A air tanker owned by Aero Union sits grounded at Redmond Airport in Redmond, Ore., in this July 19, 2002, file photo, following an air tanker crash in Colorado. Aero Union, the California company that supplied more than a third of the heavy firefighting air tankers grounded by the government said Monday May 17, 2004, it is unfairly being lumped in with a Wyoming firm responsible for most of the catastrophic accidents. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

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Will grounded tankers effect basin firefighting efforts?

• By ncs-import
• May 24, 2004