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Title: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: charles on May 07, 2017, 03:24:30 pm Got called up from our AoO in idaho and made a long drive from twin falls to lake city, fl to fight a wild fire in the southern swamps of Ga, a few miles across the state line.
My assigned ship (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/b2c5911aa28d2c828145ed5467f348cd.jpg) Our sister ship (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/c17695346da40fd52836bccb25b71ee9.jpg) There are 2 S-61s, 2 K Maxx, 2 H-60s and our 2 CH-47s, which for 1 47, can drop as much, and sometimes more water per cycle than 2 of any of the other ships on this heli base combined. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: charles on May 07, 2017, 04:04:50 pm (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/2750d1db71063462c76ef1019896527a.jpg)
K-Maxx funky looking thing, but for its size, is a lifting sob. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/8f9f6915e9ffad2ae1ef6f4ff427f91a.jpg) (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/0d3c29124fab4856e48b4504ab5b0358.jpg) Both of the 60s I forgot about the fixed wing tankers. there were 3 on site, and an additional 2 were called in. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/90a77abc7a76106943479c6379c8381e.jpg) Barely can see the smoke, its just over the top and left of the vertical blue canoes. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170507/47a02cc1485f3261891a5305fa5a64f1.jpg) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: WayOutWest on May 07, 2017, 08:46:01 pm Stay safe down there! Glad to see you are still with Columbia.
Title: Re: Post by: spazhogdog on May 08, 2017, 06:41:11 am Be safe and thanks for what I do, I live in fl and it is super dry here
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: CHRIS H. on May 08, 2017, 10:07:27 am Super cool ! Stay safe and thanks for sharing ., glad to see your still flying
Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: charles on May 08, 2017, 08:03:02 pm Oh, im not flying that big whoppity whop, im just a po ass wrench on it. I did get 1.5hrs on it last yr when we were ferrying from butte, mt to yreaka, ca. I am though, still flying to build my hrs to get my cert so i can start making money flying. Today i flew from houston to my house in temple, tx so i do some maint on the heli. I wrench for free so i can fly for free.
Title: Re: Post by: Fixitlouie on May 09, 2017, 04:47:49 pm That's bad ass bro!!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: Austesus on May 25, 2017, 08:36:09 am That's awesome! They were talking about sending us down there to fight them but we wound up not going
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: charles on May 25, 2017, 08:45:21 am That's awesome! They were talking about sending us down there to fight them but we wound up not going Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Who do you work for? Title: Re: Early Start to Fire Season Post by: Austesus on May 29, 2017, 01:34:05 am That's awesome! They were talking about sending us down there to fight them but we wound up not going Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Who do you work for? I'm full time in the SC national guard. I'm on the Blackhawks at McEntire. We've been doing a lot of fire/rescue stuff the past few years Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |