Figured I would post a few pics of my adventures in the last 5 weeks.... (Just got home for few days off):
The Lowell Fire outside of Lake Tahoe, one of my Hueys doing a spot drop:
All coming back to base for the night---we had 15 helicopters on this fire ranging from a Jet Ranger all the way upto a Crane and EVERYthing in between:
Clearly NOT tomato plants:
They do give us good lunche sacks though:
This was on the Frog Fire on the Modoc National Forest. One firefighter died fighting this one, (RIP Dave Ruhl), You can see a tanker about to drop here:
I then went to the Gasquet Complex in the Redwood National Forest System:
Here is why California is having so many problems---you can see the effecct of the drought here:
