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*halo announcer voice* "get ready for the last day of your life"
made for the halo reach firefight group contest.
Aerial firefighting tanker based on the 60+ year old DC-7 aircraft, conducting training flights yesterday, right over my house. There are probably fewer than 40 of these aircraft still flying in the world today.
With the pandemic, it is unlikely I will attend any air shows this year so I try to catch photos when I can. Having this training at my local airport gave us a little airshow the past few days.
Photo processed in Capture One and Topaz Denoise.
This week’s Throwback Thursday photos are from October 22, 1977 – a 5th Alarm at 622 West 51st Street (a vacant warehouse) in Manhattan (FD Box 55-0852).
Did you know?
-Smokejumpers are wildland firefighters who get to fires via airplane and parachute. Jumpers exist because they can get to remote fires safely and quickly, helping keep high-risk fires small.
-The U.S. has about 450 jumpers. (Conversely, Russia uses about 4,000 jumpers.)
-Smokejumping in the U.S. dates back to 1939. The first operational fire jump occurred in 1940 on the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho.
-Boise, ID and Fairbanks, AK are the two BLM jump bases. The U.S. Forest Service has seven jump bases (Winthrop, WA; Redmond, OR; Redding, CA; McCall, ID; Grangeville, ID; Missoula, MT; and West Yellowstone, MT).
-The Boise jump base employs some 80-85 jumpers every season. During the fire season, these jumpers are based out of other locations in the Great Basin, depending on where the needs are.
-Smokejumper training takes about five weeks. An attrition rate of 30-50% is not uncommon, due to the rigors of the training program.
-When a smokejumper leaves the airplane, he or she is wearing about 85 pounds of equipment.
-Smokejumpers suit up in approximately 2 minutes. The load of jumpers takes about eight minutes to get suited up and into the air after getting a dispatch.
-The smokejumper’s reserve parachute has an automatic device (works on barometric pressure) that deploys the parachute if the jumper is unconscious.
-Smokejumpers require special training and physical fitness rivaled only by elite military units. Once they have completed their mission on a fire, jumpers usually have to pack out their gear—which typically weighs 120 pounds.
Photo courtesy of NIFC.
ELLABELLA, Ga. March 29, 2017 - A CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the Georgia Army National Guard’s Detachment 1, Company B, 1st Battalion, 169 Aviation Regiment, uses a collapsible bucket to disperse water at an aerial firefighting exercise. The training scenario is part of Vigilant Guard 2017 and incorporated representatives the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Forestry Commission and Georgia State Patrol. U.S. Army Spc. Jesse Coggins / released
Super Puma of the German Police and Sikorski CH-53 of the German Federal Armed Forces support the fire brigades for combating a large forest fire from the air.
during the last week a very special issue has caused topics for discussions in germany: highly probable germany's biggest poultry company wiesenhof will sponsor the bundesliga football club werder bremen. wiesenhof hit the headlines with information about antibiotics in the animal food, bunions, corroded lungs and absolutely disastrous living conditions for their animals plus killing in childhood.
fortunately today i didn't have to be behind the 8-ball: we had rib of beef of very good quality, and anyway the cows are reared completely species-appropriate.
read what i think about the contract and the rogue firms like wiesenhof on
dybydy-phtgrphy.blogspot.de/2012/08/1408-firefighting-ope...
day by day photography by trashpater
shot on tripod with 10 seconds timer and prefocus
An Helisul-Grupo INAER Bell 212 Twin Two-Twelve refills his bamby bucket with water while fighting a small fire close to the airstrip.
After a few drops the fire was controlled... but as you can see, I got a little bit wet while trying to capture this picture in the middle of the downwash!
Photo taken during the coverage of Viseu Airshow for Sirius Magazine.
At first, the burning vehicle is being extinguished. Fire and rescue operation training of the safety cooperation Rheineck-Thal-Lutzenberg (SV-RTL). Sicherheitsverbund R-T-L, Buriet, Switzerland, Feb 28, 2015.
U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, return to Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton after conducting a firefighting training exercise over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 10, 2020. Marines with HMLA-169 and HMLA-267 provided support to California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’ firefighting efforts against the Valley Fire in East San Diego County, Sept. 7-9. The Marines are committed to supporting the local community, and conducted the training to gain additional proficiency in aerial firefighting techniques in the event they are called to assist again. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kerstin Roberts)
Fire Engine, Kent Firefighting Museum. It is inside Woodlands Garden Centre, Ash, near West Kingsdown, Sevenoaks.
Flickr, Stansted, England is rather misleading.
Hartford Fire Engine 1663
Washington County, Wisconsin
May 2014
Photo by Asher Heimermann/Incident Response
A composite of a single Chinook dropping 2,000 gallons of water from a "bambi bucket".
My nephew-in-law Jason piloting. I used an outside source photo to make this composite, just to give an idea "how it works"
Warren Township Fire Department restored fire engine, on display at the Irvington Halloween Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana.
A desert battlescape constructed from 3 desert outposts and a few accessories from other Mega Bloks: CoD elements
Returned from another 5 day trip to Victoria to help with the fires. This time I was based out of Alexandra where the CFS crews helped contain backburns and the firefront at roadsides.
Front row L to R: High School medalists—Silver-Evin Smith, Butler Tech-D. Russel Lee CTC (Ohio); Gold-Christopher McCann, Cecil County School of Technology (Md.); Bronze-Madison M. Mattis (Valley Academy for Career and Technology Education (Ariz.). Back row L to R: College/Postsecondary medalists—Silver-Paul Christensen, Utah Valley University (Utah); Gold-Austin Hatcher, Lanier Technical College (Ga.); Bronze-Mason Ingram, Metropolitan Community College (Neb.).
Recycled cartoon from my firefighting days. Originally drawn in 1997 and redrawn for the photoshop age.
Firefighting, Butte, Montana
"Firefighting in the early days, this is the horse drawn equipment used at that time."
Image taken from page 78 of Meaderville Volunteer Fire Department; Our Golden Anniversary Year; Fifty Years of Community Service; MVFD; 1910 - 1960 by Angelo Petroni, Fire Chief (1960).
View entire book at the Montana Memory Project.
Unique ID: mze-mead1960 pg 78
Type: Pamphlet
Contributors: Meaderville Volunteer Fire Department; Angelo Petroni - Fire Chief; Ashton Printing.
Date Digital: December 2009
Date Original: 1960
Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)
Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.
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Permission for this digitization was generously granted by creator Angelo Petroni and owner Louis Fontana.
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The Great Basin Smokejumpers, stationed in Boise, Idaho, get ready for wildland firefighting in Fire Year 2021. Photo by Kari Greer, BLM contractor
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Aug. 9, 2017) Sailors attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), undergo training during the General Shipboard Firefighting Course at the Surface Warfare Officers School, Learning Site Yokosuka. Blue Ridge is in an extensive maintenance period in order to modernize the ship to continue to serve as a robust communications platform in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Patrick Semales/RELEASED)
Front row L to R: National technical committee member David Barlow; High School medalists—Silver-Samuel Shreves, Wood County Technical Center (W.V.); Gold-Kyle Martin, Lancaster County Career and Technology Center-Mount Joy (Pa.); and Bronze-Nikoli Correa, Highland High School (Calif.). Back row L to R: College/Postsecondary medalists—Silver-Jordan Escher, Manatee Technical College (Fla.); Gold-Griffin Conroy, Utah Valley University (Utah); and Bronze-Brennen Raynor, Chemeketa Community College (Ore.).