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Permalink Reply by Steve Williams on February 23, 2009 at 4:55pm

Everything in our area is handled primarily by brush trucks. However we use the helicopters for EMS a lot.

Permalink Reply by Jim Holm on February 24, 2009 at 10:57pm

We have 5 Bell UH-1H for fire along with 2 Bell 206-BIII. This are based around Mt. Here is a pic of 95M dropping on a fire I was the IC on last summer.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Williams on February 24, 2009 at 11:03pm

Sweet pic what area are you from? Add you pic to my new group Emergency services aviation. Thanks

Permalink Reply by Jim Holm on February 24, 2009 at 11:11pm

Up In Nw Mt. Here is a pic showing most of ships in our main hanger. Last yr at total of 2,089,976 gallons of water/retardant were dropped. The ship on my avatar was a BIII I was asssigned to in California as a HECM in 2007 on the Ralston and Bassetts fires. Did recon and IR flights for 2 weeks.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Williams on March 15, 2009 at 11:09pm

Nice picture! Thanks for sending it.