I'm gonna cheat again today and give you two photos - so that you can get the entire story. The first photo is actually today's photo, but the second one is the start of the story that I took yesterday afternoon.
Late yesterday afternoon a bushfire in the dunes behind our house was being fought by a number of helitacs (water bombing helicopters). It was pretty exciting and I got just a little pink standing outside in the sun for so long on our balcony taking photos and videos. This is one of the photos I took this morning of what is left of the vegetation along the trail we take to the beach.
This is one of the photos I took yesterday afternoon of the Fire King water bombing chopper that carries 4000 litres of water. It came from California at the beginning of December this past year and aren't we glad it is here. This photo was taken from our balcony looking towards to ocean and the direction of the previous photo.
Firemen and the water bombers did a fabulous job, so contained the fire quickly without any loss of property or lives.
Here is a link to a video someone posted on YouTube of one of the smaller helicopters refilling at a pond just a short distance from the fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwEs7LvwfMM
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