California Wildfires Thread

[Daniel Cooper]

Pics and videos welcome. What a fiasco.

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[Dry Guy]

Coulson's is sending aircraft to help. Too bad the Mars was retired/engine failure.
[YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44wF4wpEvE[/YouTube]

[Old fella]

Perhaps I can come out of retirement after a 46 yr absence.........

[goldeneagle]

Coulson's is sending aircraft to help. Too bad the Mars was retired/engine failure.

Apparently the old hangar queen was towed up to Cowichan bay to swap an engine, and I just saw a video on youtube which suggests they took it back to Pat Bay yesterday, under her own power, but on the water all the way. Not sure what that's all about, but probably something about lack of a flight permit or such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkadDC1uKUY

[Dry Guy]

Imagine cities like Los Angeles protected themselves from wildfire as much as the logging industry protected the trees they wanted to cut down. Coulsons used to run up that Mars daily just in case a fire popped up. That's like an hour worth of ground running just to get the oil up to temp and ready. It couldn't have been cheap but it's way cheaper than losing $135B in structures.

[albertdesalvo]

Perhaps I can come out of retirement after a 46 yr absence.........

Who's been bombing those rocks?

[Old fella]

Perhaps I can come out of retirement after a 46 yr absence.........

Who's been bombing those rocks?

Ya would be surprised what lurks in and around the “ rock”, only the “ shadow “ knows for sure.