Helicopters and fires .

[The_Mask]

Firetrucks are out of range of a burning building and helicopters are not taking off . Or is that not how they work ?

[vajeeking]

u need make sure helicopters is available to get water in those those blue dots. if now water available they not do it...
you click u helipad fire and see if they have access to water?
if there is no water access you helicopters are just sitting there doing nothing.

[The_Mask]

There are plenty of lakes and river with blue dots .
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2477195123

[vajeeking]

so why helicopters not take off .might be bug or do u have cars do it faster. maybe cars was epployment first . i bet u just add helicopters not cars in u fire station.there might be some bug if you have both and cars are slow .

[The_Mask]

I have firetrucks and 3 helicopters . It says firetrucks are out of range .

[vajeeking]

so they implement those trucks go first and they not are too slow to acess. so not add cars distant sites. just add heliscopters if u distance is far.

[vajeeking]

u see u problem u have 3 firetrucks they are way to slow. game have if u have helicopter pad use it withous cars

[vajeeking]

there is ujust not implemented really good ♥♥♥♥ how fire is done , so if u have cars and helicopters so it might be just another goes another does not

[ECInnos]

actually you can just have helis only at a fire station, i did that in an area i was building far away from my main area. they did work, but i found that you need multiple helicopters in order to do firefighting effectively without trucks also....

i think the issue is one with helicopters in general. i read that they are supposed to be unlimited range even with auto construction on (for COs atleast, id think the fire stations heli would do the same?) helicopter COs wont auto select construction sites over 3km still in my experience, and i cant manually add them via the construction site either if they are over 5KM away, they still arent in the list. as for fire stations, im guessing the range the trucks cover is being treated as the same range a helicopter will cover.