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Old Jul 7th 2011, 4:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Jur
Ah, I thought that was your house in the 1st picture.
Granny flat and garage
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Old Jul 7th 2011, 4:33 pm
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Originally Posted by Jur
It must be so scary to have these fires so close to your home!
This was taken a couple of years ago from where we used to live, we now live closer to where the fire was.
It took a while to put out with two helicoptors and a plane.




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They were picking up from Alcaidesa and dumping it about a mile the other side of the casino when I drove down the A7 at 2 ish this afternoon couldn't see any smoke though, 2 planes and 3 helicopters
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Originally Posted by Triana
Sunday's fire was really bad - at least 2 planes and 2 helicopters worked for hours from the afternoon onwards to put out the flames, which were huge. The fire reached the edge of the service road alongside the CN341 near Alcaidesa and San Roque Club. as far as I know nobody was hurt. As said above, more fire last night and this morning.
Out of interest and as you have experienced it first hand how well does dropping water from the 'planes in dousing the fires work or are they reliant on ground support by the fire services?

When I've seen it on the telly fighting fires in the USA I struggle to see that it has much effect and looks more of a PR exercise.
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it works...depends how strong the fire is though and the wind. Helps if there is a firebreak or some way of limiting it spreading, then letting it burn out on it's own away from where it can do damage....got some excellent pictures of them in action from 2005..pics to follow watch this space once I can locate em
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here they are
Attached Thumbnails Summer !-fire1.jpg   Summer !-fire2.jpg   Summer !-fire4.jpg  
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Originally Posted by johnnyone
Out of interest and as you have experienced it first hand how well does dropping water from the 'planes in dousing the fires work or are they reliant on ground support by the fire services?

When I've seen it on the telly fighting fires in the USA I struggle to see that it has much effect and looks more of a PR exercise.
The helicopter drop picture was taken first, so the second picture does not show much sucess

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They also can drop red coloured fire retardant powder from a much smaller aircraft.
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Behind us there was a pink house when we first moved in, it's white again now. Only recently did we find out it was a miss with the retardant !
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All day long, nine helicopters and five planes dumped water on the fire in a bid to bring it under control.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=22196

I only saw the two planes that were collecting water near me.
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All day long, nine helicopters and five planes dumped water on the fire in a bid to bring it under control.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=22196

I only saw the two planes that were collecting water near me.
definitely 2 planes and 3 helicopters...they probably misheard a voicemail message they hacked in to

I must admit I had to look twice at their picture and the third in the series I posted amazingly similar angle ....
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Here's an interesting angle

Sunday's fire

"Everyone knows what's going on here, year after year. They take advantage of the Poniente (Westerly) wind, and when there's a Levante (Easterly), they'll try it on Sierra Carbonera."
Wednesday's fire

This time it was on Sierra Carbonera (as predicted by an onlooker at last week's nearby at La Alcaidesa)
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I must admit I was curious as to why they were picking up water near me when the Mediterranean side was closer thereby less flight time although only fractional. With the westerly wind there should no have been a problem on the Med side.
So maybe the airspace was divided for safety.
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