Firefighting airplanes scooping up water at Pineview for Powder Mountain fire

[Sombeech]

This was a cool sight to see, after they kicked us all off the water of course.

The fire was between Avon and Powder Mountain, up in Ogden Valley.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2BWJIT3II

[Iceaxe]

Curious... how did they clear all the boats and people off the lake? I'm guessing the boat ramp became a giant clusterf**k?

[Sombeech]

Curious... how did they clear all the boats and people off the lake? I'm guessing the boat ramp became a giant clusterf**k?

They closed the ramp, and then the police boat had to come up to each one of us and ask us to leave. It took a good hour to get everybody cleared. Even then there was a jet ski roaming around while the tankers were filling up, directly in the flight path. Would have been a cool sight, but the pilot probably freaked out a bit.

[twotimer]

Hey man...I wanted to know what the scientist were going to prove with the hornet.

[Sombeech]

Hey man...I wanted to know what the scientist were going to prove with the hornet.

Ha ha, she was saying, "Scientists have discovered the only thing you can do for a hornet sting is to stand there and scream"