 FACT: After a successful retardant drop, a tanker pilot lands at the  tanker base and taxis to a stop. His plane is surrounded by cheering  firefighters who appear to have been working on the fire as their  fire clothes are dirty and they are holding firefighting tools. Real  firefighters wouldnt be hanging around a tanker base after being  out on the fireline, and if they were they would not be allowed to  swarm a plane on the taxi way 