A couple shots from the fire in LA.....The sun wasn`t helping with the CH-54B....but kind of an interesting shot.
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Thats fire and smoke behind "Fire 1"
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LAFD AW-139 "Fire 3"s first fire....the tank was installed last night.
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A USFS Contract Bell 210....one of four made before Bell cancelled the program
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Fire 1 and the fire
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Fire 5 lands for more water
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Man, those are awesome! I wish I could shoot where you shoot. ;D
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Los Angeles City (Erickson) S-64E 'Lucille" takes another load of water....
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Los Angeles County Fire (Erickson) S-64E worked to gether with the city and a USFS Erickson.
All three and the HTS CH-54B just went around in circles.....thats a full DC-10 load every 5 minutes.
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The colors are real...
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WOW! and what do you shoot with Skip? <nikon> ;)
Great Pics but Please don't interfere with fire fighting effort.
Quote from: rander on November 16, 2008, 10:56:18 AM
Great Pics but Please don't interfere with fire fighting effort.
I think he has access/permissions to be in those locations.
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They love it when im there......they get pics of themselves....
Great photos!
Is L.A.Fire gonna replace all their hueys with AW-139's?
Quote from: rander on November 17, 2008, 05:51:45 PM
Is L.A.Fire gonna replace all their hueys with AW-139's?
They added 2 AW-139's and #3 412 is being replaced by one of those so sort of. Add one replace one.