Cajun, thanks.
Charles, I've been choking on smoke from the fires around the LA/SanBernadino area all summer. Get your butt out here and out those things out.
The Grand Canyon pics are bad ass
i know what you mean. the show low fire was bad, we dealt with ash continuously, even during maintenance. i think that was the worst of the smoke and ash for all the fires we have been on. as for putting the cali fires out, i think we have a couple ships down there dropping water, but I'm not 100% sure. i figure with all the fires there, we would have already been there, especially since we are a tanked a/c, but we still have our restricted class going against us. being restricted means we can't fly over densely populated ares, which it seems some of the areas on fire are densely populated. until cal-fir calls for us, we will bounce from state to state like a cheap $2 dollar whore on .50c night. good luck to ya and hopefully the fires stay away from ya.
This shot is from my backyard about four years ago. These hills around here burn every year.
