Visiting With The USFS Fire men

[Cirrus N210MS]

This was Yesterday At Mt Charleston They Landed near where we were Working so we drop by and Took some photos and hade fun befor they hade to Head back to work

 

[Dangerousdave26]

Dang Mike you do get to see a lot of interesting stuff right there in your own backyard.

Pretty cool.

 

[Cirrus N210MS]

Dang Mike you do get to see a lot of interesting stuff right there in your own backyard.

Pretty cool.

I am Volunteering with the USFS In Clark county right now its Pretty Nice up in the Mountains
I will be back at home soon do to the airshow is coming up and i help with the Traffic control and parking of the cars at the airshow

 

[Jagdflieger]

Dang, those photos bring back memories of fire fighting for my summer job when I was in college after VN. A good fire season and the attendant overtime made for some pretty good pay. I ended up a Helitack forman with the Bureau of Land Management my last year. My team used the Bell Jet Ranger for our aerial insertions and exfiltrations although at one point we had a Bell Huey (212). We could tripple our load over the Jet Ranger with the Huey and used it for the big fires and the Jet Ranger for the spot fires from lighting strikes or orther causes. The Huey could also double as a water drop helo when no firefighters were on board it.

Looks like the uniforms haven't changed much in all these years. Can't argue with success I guess. Looks like a couple of those firefighters are wearing Whites' (out of Spokane, WA) "Smokejumper" boots. That was my favorite boot for backcountry firefighting in Utah and Western Colorado.