Fire fighting planes..anyone fly one?

go-fish said
I was 34 when I got into the job. I was in the military, ran with the Special Ops types, came back from Iraq and didn’t quite fit back into society. I had always wanted to be a firefighter so I started taking Fire Science courses and got my EMT license. Did some ride alongs with a couple of big city departments and realized how public the job is and decided to go into Wildland Firefighting. At 41 I am just behind the fastest young guys on the runs and hikes but I can still work all day and night for a 15-21 day assignment. It just comes down to being smart and not getting injured and keeping on top of your physical fitness. Eat right and don’t drink View attachment 1715769688
Helispot at 11,000 ft. Flying in supplies and people. Had to do a Medevac on this fire. View attachment 1715769689
Type 1 Helitanker (Sky Crane) making a drop. These things are absolutely massive.

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This is a Delta 160th SOAR (Special Operation Air Regiment?) Apache. We did a lot of interoperability training with these guys at Fort Campbell, KY.

One of the planes the other day was a CL215, the other 2 looked like the Grumann S2T. Thank You for everything you do.
Few years back we had a fire across the river, a meth cook house exploded. The meth heads got out before the explosion. They hid from the LEO that were going door to door, telling people that were closest to the fire they had to leave. Home owners left...meth heads started breaking in to their homes. Someone had trail cameras in their yard, said meth heads went to jail.
Several helicopters were used to fight that fire. One of them had some sort of electrical malfunction...he was attempting to land in the open field in front of my house. He was about 10' off the ground when the rotors stopped...pretty rough way to land. The two people in the helicopter were not injured. Took them close to 3 weeks to get the parts for it. The entire time a member of DNR sat in/near the helicopter. Every 12 hours a new DNR member would show up. We went thru a lot of coffee and water bottles....