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Been reading about all of the horrible wild fires in Northern California.
Saw a story about letting people see the copters near Willow Creek,&
thought of you.
I 'm unable to post a link,as it was too long & incomplete on the
website Red Headed Black Belt.
Not sure how you do that?
 
I have been in AZ all summer and just rotated out of Prescott. I started my last rotation in Kingman but that fire was pretty much wrapped up so we got sent to preposition at the main base for northern Arizona and were not expecting to do much.
A likely lightning hold-over (a strike can be a hazard for upwards of 10 days) took hold and so for a few days me and a Chinook were busy on that but Mother Nature did the heavy lifting one night for us so I ended up sitting for the rest of my shift.
A friend of mine was on the Park Fire until recently and he said it was pretty intense. It seems like CalFire and the FS have gotten hold of it (according to him) so hopefully it can be contained fully and the public affected can relax (or even go home).

Willow Creek! I know that decommissioned airstrip well as it often gets appropriated as a heli-base for fire fighting in the area. Pretty countryside in that area…
 
I'll be heading back to Eureka soon,& I'm hoping that their won't be
a lot of smoke in the air.I'm hoping to see a lot of the areas that I used to.
At least there's still the Redwoods.
 
I wondered if CalFire in Fire Country was real or fictional. Obviously the show is largely fictional - and rather "dramatic" - but some of it may border on realistic.
 
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