forest fire flight

[akflyer 1427]

just flew up to check out a few buddies cabins. So far the fire has burned 50,000 acres of prime recreation and snowmachining areas that I play in all winter. Lots of buddies cabins are gone now..the last pic is home sweet home

[84KF 4]

To bad about the destruction.

On the lighter side:

It looks like a large formation flight of them smokin' 2-strokes.

steve

[akflyer 1427]

dat one big gaggle of 2 strokes 

the first pic is a pair of canadair 215's that just loaded up at a lake about 20 miles away.  The second pic you have to zoom in right over the tire and you can see one of them dropping the water.  This was about 300 yards away from my cousins cabin as they were trying to hold the line to keep it from jumping the road.. They did the job and got it shut down just before it hit his cabin!