After spending the weekend up in the mountains for Reade’s 12th Birthday ski party, we came home to find a wildfire burning the hillside adjacent to our subdivision. When I quit taking pics at about 6:30, the fireline was perhaps 3/4 mile away, and the winds shifted so the smoke was now in the air. A Bell 212 was working the fire from a pond a few hundred yards behind the subdivision; a few images are below. If want to see more helicopter images, you can find them in the Indian Gulch Wildfire Day 1 slideshow at jeffwarnerphoto.com.
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| 275 gallon Bambi Bucket, 2200 pounds of cool breeze. |
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| Pilot sits on the left in this SuperHuey, a bit unusual for helicopters, but not so much for longlining. |
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| Mt. Zion in the background. |
