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I got paged to a fire that was only a couple of houses away yesterday. It was a good experience for me to run a hose reel for 45 minutes while the FireHawk did the heavy lifting


Ive been right next to a helo drop, and its like a van sized slug of water hits the ground, you do not want to be under it.
Tho to be fair, when they dropped next to us, we were in a flare up, and they had just refilled at a dam, and were less than 100ft up when they saw us and came back and dropped saving us from the wind change in the gulley.
Scary and awesome at the same time.
Stay safe over there, were on high alert here at the moment too.
 
I thought moving cars with a dozer would go a bit quicker? This is why my alternate evacuation plan involves pedaling to the rodeo grounds should we have a conflagration.




Every Cat skinner's dream. I imagine that after the media was gone the operator might have kicked it up a notch or two. I would have.
 
Every Cat skinner's dream. I imagine that after the media was gone the operator might have kicked it up a notch or two. I would have.
Great minds think alike. Having only the experience of running a farm tractor, I didn't want to speak for the experienced operators. But I was thinking that.

The other thought was how many lawyers are going to try to make money from the car clearing operation?

Then, I turned on a BBC report. It looked like the highway was closed and cleared as only engines were going by. Then a guy on an ebike went by at high speed. Soon a couple of folks on bicycles went by going the other way and waved.

They needed the cat/dozers downtown also, as that was gridlock. It looked like a disaster movie evacuation.
 

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