I never like the forest fires..but I do enjoy the sunsets the smoke helps create.
On the Cliff Creek fire, ie Bondurant, they brought in the super scoopers, planes made in Canada, based on Boise...however the pilot said these had never been to Boise, and are sent all over the country to help put down fires and save structers. They fly to a water source...Fremont Lake in our case and scoop up 1600 hundred gallons in twelve seconds...fly back to the fire and dump it in strategic places. Their turn around time was about twenty minutes.
This one of the inside didn't exactly get anything.
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Those planes were cool! I still can't believe they cost 33 million dollars! 33 MILLION! That is a lot of money.
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Interesting
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