A few years ago we were on holiday in Samos (Greek island, but only just off Turkey, very quiet). Very hot, and a couple of days after we got there a wildfire started up in the hills. They must have called out every waterbomber and helicopter in the Aegean, and at 8am one morning the whole lot whizzed over our hotel, picked up water in the harbour, went and dropped it in the hills, rinse and repeat. For 3 days, dawn till dusk. One in particular seemed to delight in just how low he could get above the rooftops....... and to see four in line astern diving on the water in the harbour going one way as the ferries came in the other was quite something.
Also, as we taxied to leave on the Sunday we passed a Sikorsky Sky hook sat right in the middle of the runway, I remember thinking "I hope they're going to shift that before we set off."
All respect to the firefighter pilots, some job.