Helicopter drop point

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A Helicopter drop point, or drop point is similar to a helispot, but used for ground supplies. Large supply vehicles can drive up to a drop point and literally drop supplies off on the edge of an incident for the ground teams to come by and pick up. Drop points are located all around the fire.

Wildland firefighters will usually pick up sharpened tools at the drop points and some quick water, food, radio batteries, updated instructions regarding the incident. On an incident map, the symbol for a drop point is a filled dot with the letters D-# next to them with the # designating which number is it.