Falls Fire - some pics

[QUKBMER]

You guys are horrible :giggle:

[LuckyHenriksen]

^ probably a dude

[blunttech]

shot by a family friend. there's a you tube video that shows this same drop.



pilot obviously thinks that's a stick, not a yoke

I would dump a similar sized load on the chick on the right

[kickinindian]

That guy is a good pilot i love watching him fly some of that shit!

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[Edev]

Wow. That's an insane picture! ^^

[2761377]

shot by a family friend. there's a you tube video that shows this same drop.



pilot obviously thinks that's a stick, not a yoke

[E30_Pare]

omg there was a fire?! i need to check the news...

[AndrewBird]

Doesn't look like those little bags of water do anything.

Those "little bags of water" can carry up to 2600 gallons of water. Quite a bit bigger than you think.

[kickinindian]

They use the water to help wet up the stuff that has not burned yet to slow it down a little where they have cut line with hand crews

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[Herr Faust Schinken]

Doesn't look like those little bags of water do anything.

The DC-10 sure will

[LowR3V'in]

Doesn't look like those little bags of water do anything.

[kickinindian]

A few miles from my place the usfs just are finishing up a 25k acre fire was pretty gnarly hit a record on our forest. Lucky it was not as close to a major metro area like down south!

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[smitche]

Yeah, at the point I was there it had only burned a few acres and only 2 choppers were running along with a Cal Fire spotter plane (which I got a lousy picture of). I took the day off to spend the day with a couple friends in OC. They had just closed Ortega as I was headed home so I had to take the 76 over instead.

Edit: the fire had just jumped the ridge when CHP asked us to leave. I know it sounds morbid, but I was I could've stayed to get a few more pictures. The flames were massive when it came over the ridge.

[QUKBMER]

That fire was like 2.5 miles from my house.

[Herr Faust Schinken]

the big dc-10s were flying over my house all day going to san bernardino airport