Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

some night when the winds are blowing hard

Which aircraft would you dispatch, mr. genius? If winds are blowing hard, no helicopters, and retardant planes are daytime VFR type control.
By the way, how many fire starts are stopped in a year? Answer: thousands. You might enroll in a fire class if you want understand what you are blabbering about. Detection and response is a whole field of science. Automatic detection cameras on lookouts have improved upon human sets of eyes. Actually, it is fortunate you are so fire-illiterate as you would make a failure as an arsonist and would be caught instantly.

hoping air craft could do that as doubtful ground people/equipment could get it done

Nice insult to the thousands of first responders and their successes. No need for engine companies in your town, as you doubt they could get 'er done so you might as well unfund them. Your fixation on aircraft makes you look like a wannabe and your ideas would ensure that you would be the lowest on a fire crew (generally referred to as drag shovel on a hand crew)