Firefighters Nearly Burned Over By Wildfire-Airtankers, Fire Dozer, And New Firehawk Helicopter

[@martinbauer2510]

This kind of air support is amazing. Wish we would have this ability in Germany. Respect for their knowledge and bravery during this incident.

[@peeterl.2016]

Germany doesn't need it.

[@71Gilligan]

I don't think so. Fixed wing aircraft ok. But we are even short on helos.

[@MrGarzog]

@@71Gilligan Who exactly is short on helos?

[@PeterNichtlustig0815]

@@71Gilligan If you´re talking about germany that´s very untrue. Germany has the biggest helicopter fleet in the world. ;)

[@71Gilligan]

@@PeterNichtlustig0815 Dream on....

[@jamesf6391]

Cal Fire helicopter pilot has to be one of the best jobs in the world.

[@ATGG]

The pilot in the Fixed-Wing is either a Ex- Fighter Pilot or he's RP'ing being one... Great Skills!!

[@itisjambo]

I thought so too! Very impressive flying.

[@naturallygamer7049]

Those flying skills is amazing!!! Thank you ladies and brothers for being heros

[@jonathanthefirst5164]

That hand crew ran like hell to get out of there! Fuck yeah CalFire!

[@mtarango]

10s and 18 #4: Identify escape routes and safety zones and make them known. Good job on them on backing out when that spot grew fast.

[@eyedeaslive]

Not a spot, flare up

[@mhaskins3769]

Pretty sure the heat is what made them back out 😂.

[@andrewmcmaster2899]

Good on em for utilizing their ER but at the same time, could over eagerness played a roll here early season? I know I've been having to calm my own jitters with our forecasts. Ya look deep enough, and there's always a lesson learned.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

@@eyedeaslive looks like a hot spot to me. Isolated from the main burn site.

[@jameslira1537]

That is not a spot fire. A green finger flared up.

[@viperq]

Love these new Blackhawks.

[@chrisschaefer3863]

Yep! 1000 gallons a load compared to 360 for the Hueys. Plus in theory they can fly at night though it's not clear if CalFire tactics will change because of that.

[@overlordgaming752]

Best part is the army is getting rid of their UH-60’s and MH-60’s so cal won’t be the only service deploying them. The shift from the current helis to either the Bell pitch or the Sikorsky and Boeing pitch will start in 10 years

[@ImpendingJoker]

@@overlordgaming752 The Army has never operated the MH-60. Both the MH-60R and MH-60S are Navy birds and neither are being retired as they are practically new airframes. As for the Army, they are getting rid of the older UH-60As and some of the UH-60Ls but it has nothing to do with CalFire getting them. The new Firehawks that are coming online are new purpose built aircraft that were never military so your whole comment is wrong from the get go.

[@f22pilotjc]

@@ImpendingJoker well, the Army does use Mh-60s. 160th SOAR Blackhawks are Mh variant. Different than the navy birds obviously. But Mh-60 nonetheless.

[@f22pilotjc]

@@ImpendingJoker The way the different services label H-60s can be confusing. Another example is HH. Both the Army and Airforce operate HH-60. However, the Army HH is unarmed medical variant while the Airforce is what the PJs use

[@SantaCruzFilms]

Excellent footage!

[@lucindaseaton3490]

Great job everyone. Glad you were able to get out of harms way before the fire came. Stay safe out there!!

[@placer70]

Great catch Max! It would have been nice to have one of the copters to support that mid slope hoselay or at least cool off that backing/head fire to prevent the near miss. Glad no-one was hurt there and this provides a good tailgate safety session for the rest of the fire season.

[@alexandernunez109]

Thanks for the ride in! 😂 Awesome footage from your angle.

[@jamesduncan1076]

Really excellent wildland fire fighting video. Thanks.

[@ActionOfTheDay]

Great stuff Max, that was scary to watch that almost burnover

[@maxmcgregor7609]

It was definitely intense in person!

[@sandralouth3103]

We had a fire where I live 2 years ago. I was so impressed with the pilots skills. They got the fire out right at the outside edge of our 12' dirt road.

[@Asethet]

Crazy to think that Cal Fire is a significantly larger air force than my countries own military air force, by several times. They're just as well armed too, since the Government retired the strike wings.

[@sentineloffreedom]

That lowboy driver SMOKED those brakes haha

[@activealtadena25]

All the fire fighters in red are actually all prisoners that are at camp fire camps ,

[@pamd.happykat8187]

Excellent footage and video! Love watching those birds work the wildfires.

[@blinko656]

Max did you shoot this footage or is this the footage of the El Dorado fire in California?

[@maxmcgregor7609]

This is video I created from the Salmon Fire in El Dorado County, CA

[@blinko656]

When I was first getting into the fire department I would voluntarily go to any fire I saw. I drove from Redwood City to Vacaville a huge fire. I was 27 then. I wanted experience. I had my Levi’s my yellow jacket and a plastic MSA helmet fire department helmet. I hooked up with a CDF crew up in the hills where there was nothing but Madrone burning, Actually Manzanita brush. They had cut a line in it was two in the morning and we took a break. The fire had burned down went left to our left and burn back up. Without much notice maybe 30 seconds those winds were on us. It blew the fire toward us and thank God for the captain who said stay close to the burn. I unloaded 100 foot pack of 1 inch off my back and a Pulaski. We just dropped everything. We went into the burn fire continued and away from us. We went back a few hours later at daybreak and the hose was missing or gone burned up just fittings left. The ax handle had burned up and just the metal part of the Pulaski it was sitting there. That freaking fire was so hot the radiant burn my neck as we were getting away from it.Anyway retired from the fire department about 27 years later. That was a good lesson for me never had that experience after that. I saw this video and thought this was a good opportunity to share my experience with somebody stay close to the black. Thanks for posting again. Mike retired

[@blinko656]

Also if you want to see some good water drops click or type in LA County fire helicopters. You should see those guys. They drop water at night and they are freaking good they’ll come up to a spot fire angle the helicopter to the right drop down and just nail everything in their site. OK see you later won’t bother you anymore

[@hankgs]

That con-crew needs a new CDF Captain....

[@ptaylor4923]

Really good footage. Thank you.

[@WildfireEngineer]

Yeah ditto on what others have said nice vid and thank god for the quick action on the crew be safe fellas

[@joseluismartinez562]

Hotshots, one of the bravest people, respect to all of them and good luck out there.

[@chrisschaefer3863]

They guys in Orange at 0:38 are Department of Correction crews. Not hotshots. But they are brave, do a ton of the grunt work, and don't get paid nearly so much. Good on them for volunteering!

[@RandyCarpadus]

No hotshot on this fire. Just Cal Fire and CDC crews.

[@frenchiefirephoto7355]

Some great footage!

[@Nates707]

Love the footage of the firehawk

[@donaldlyss1181]

Where was this fire at

[@CBB-dg9jy]

OOF, that's a full tilt boogie on out of there for those guys.

[@nestylinmedel456]

Those blavkhawks have sirens?

[@Mike-rt3mw]

I'm a bit confused by the title of the video.

[@m118lr]

The TITLE doesn’t even make sense..?

[@Malakie]

Don't get why that HELO does not come in much lower and hit that with a full dose of water instead of letting it vaporize and wind shift before ever getting to the ground... I know for are effect you want that but when you have large flame hotspots, getting lower and putting the load right on that could make a huge difference in spread.

[@mhaskins3769]

Because the rotor wash will blow the fire over the line or cause the fire to get bigger.

[@peeterl.2016]

@@mhaskins3769 Hot air is the reason, dumbasses. It can make choppers crash.

[@mhaskins3769]

@@peeterl.2016 um ok. I am the dumbass that has been doing it for 15 years but hey the KZbin guy knows...

[@peeterl.2016]

@@mhaskins3769 Don't think you have ever flied a helicopter, because then you would know what happens with hot air and what it does to a helicopter.

[@mhaskins3769]

@@peeterl.2016 as a matter of fact I have and worked on a helitac crew. I will not argue that hot air can cause a helicopter to drop in elevation but that is not the only reason they don’t drop low.

[@rustyclaymore1105]

Moonscapes in May? Live fuel moisture content must already be in the toilet. You've all got a long season ahead. Please be careful and come home safe. D1105, Ret.

[@Detcaligirl]

Amen!

[@maxmcgregor7609]

Fuel moisture was at June averages 3 weeks ago. It’s gonna be a very long summer.

[@jimwattenburger4545]

Retired D1104 agrees

[@rustyclaymore1105]

@@jimwattenburger4545 🙂

[@skydiverclassc2031]

@@jimwattenburger4545 Retired Mountain Home Captain agrees too, and I'm glad I'm here, and not there.

[@Fefo2205]

1:07 the helicopter have a siren?

[@Brian13549]

No he's recording from the road so probably a vehicle passing buy at the same time the helicopter did.

[@KunuMcGruder]

@@Brian13549 all of the CalFire helicopters do have sirens. Its pretty common for the copter to "whale the siren" on his final approach just prior to making the water drop to warn firefighters on the ground of the incoming drop. That is a lot of water coming down. Firefighters in the past have been injured from water drops when being directly under the drop and unaware.

[@darrellcook8253]

Yup. They're there to warn you to pay attention.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

To bad the planes have to land to be reloaded with water. Here they swoop down on a lake and refill as they skip along the surface and when they are full they return. Mind you they carry a smaller load but they can get 4 or 5 runs to one of these planes.

[@Sdukes001]

God bless these brave firefighters 🙏 keep them out of harms way.

[@cah827]

is this out? and we’re is/was this

[@flight110]

Brakes on that truck looked a bit warm

[@rorygallegos7581]

Wow, inmate crew at that...😯

[@CaptainRon13]

Where was the lookout?

[@maxmcgregor7609]

It’s difficult to see in this video, but one firefighter ends up toward the top of the frame above the location of the flare up, along the edge of the black. I assume he was the lookout as his position was above the rest.

[@ericcastle7296]

Sleeping

[@nicholaslovitt5370]

I read this as "antitankers" i was like huh?

[@darrellcook8253]

Heh heh heh.

[@anthonyklein2944]

Lets see how many fire orders were broken there?? Yes I was wildland myself. Glad they made it out with only a scare!

[@ianw7162]

Best seat in the house, good job!

[@johnnaugle5762]

Salmon Falls?

[@maxmcgregor7609]

Yes, see video description for details

[@johnnaugle5762]

Very interesting to me. Grew up in EDH and was at NorCal Firecamp

[@lag9765]

Let it burn as it has for millions of years...

[@krojones9270]

Who ever uploaded this. You need to rename this video

[@maxmcgregor7609]

What would you suggest?

[@chrisflannery5546]

Awesome videos! Wish we got to see the dozer in action tho

[@AnthonyG13EmergencyVideos]

Amazing catches ! What on earth was that first unit.

[@maxmcgregor7609]

Thanks! That was a California State Parks Ranger. The fire started on or near state park land.

[@LightsandSirens]

great footage ! standing safely up close

[@robindunn9216]

Robindunn27 " Cal fire helicopter pilot Robin 👁️👁️📝

[@brycegutierrez3483]

I’m going to bring this up in six minutes for safety tomorrow. Hopefully some Lessons learned here.

[@BuildItBricks]

Just 10 more subs congrats!

[@trackside_branden]

Great catch looking forward to catching some fires here soon.

[@skydiverclassc2031]

After that flare up, it might have been better tactics to cut line below that hotspot, and give up the finger of brush, instead of focusing on direct line. They had a hoselay to the bottom, and I think they could have safely burned that finger out. Never cheat death or injury to save brush.

[@robindunn9216]

Robindunn27 👁️👁️ Cal fire helicopter polit 📝😎🚁

[@Kraigthecanadian]

Rip my ears that siren at the start absolutely brutal

[@tdogaz4114]

I like trains turtles and helicopters

[@cuttingedge91]

The guys in the red jackets are prisoners in California Prisons you know the ones Kahmala put in and gave long prison sentences to so she can use them during fire season to save the state money.

[@m118lr]

...Put their asses to work

[@aussiecbeer5644]

why did you have to get political. Respect the work done by these guys and pilots. F off at take your crap to a trump channel

[@chirstchurchNZ]

this is the kinda stuff i wish i could fight but in New Zealand our fires be alot lot smaller

[@OddsandEnds]

God bless those firefighters

[@bentheguru4986]

Chopper dropping too high. If I didn't know any better, that chopper filling up in small and tight gully was borderline LOTRA and feeling recycled airflow into the main rotor, what for the small water dump.

[@elliotjames12]

What’s LOTRA?

[@Schwab-rk4ng]

Loss of tail rotor authority

[@donaldwylie9791]

salmon incident a/e ranger unit

[@kenbrown2808]

the global supertanker couldn't turn around that fast.

[@napierwszejlinii]

FireHawk Was made in Poland, as S-70i in PZL Mielec :)

[@MedproBandit]

That’s why we have fucking watch outs. But California wants to be different....

[@kiransunrays518]

🙏

[@PurpleObscuration]

No explanation, I guess the old saying is true, you seen one fire, you seen them all

[@cassothemenace6457]

104 Boggs mountain 🤟🏼🤟🏼

[@yourmedicalupdatepodcast7256]

Somebody tell me, why don't they let it burn itself out

[@mikeggg1979]

Could of been a Granite Mountain part 2

[@lockout6896]

Kick some ass boys and girls!!

[@wayneadlkins340]

Most helo drops too high. Retired oregon wildland. Ff

[@cartman4885]

I know the helicopters help but when you watch them they seem to drop the water fairly high and it would just be a mist by the time it hit the fire...............

[@DavinR16]

That’s where you’re wrong

[@cartman4885]

@@DavinR16 So while I don't disagree with you when I watch these types of video's that's just the way it looks is all I'm saying

[@DavinR16]

@@cartman4885 I see, but for you to say “ it would just be a must by the time it hit the fire” isn’t factual. It may seem like that is happening but If you were in the dropping zone of that water drop you would be drenched and probably knocked down from the thousands of gallons of water that fell on you

[@JasmineLindros]

@@DavinR16 Calm down, and learn how much water a helicopter actually carries.

[@rustyclaymore1105]

Hundreds not thousands but I can confirm, you get very wet. Great on a hot day.

[@paultaylor3517]

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[@OregonCrow]

Been watching CAL FIRE do there thing since I was a boy. They are not very good at what they do. And they prove it year after year. Sad

[@KunuMcGruder]

How would you know? Is wildland firefighting your expertise?

[@andrewharris1749]

Calfire is the only one that puts firefighters in bad situations

[@amircheraghee6717]

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