In Canada, thousands of aircraft are deployed every year to help fight the spread of wildfires. If fighting fires was a warzone, the water bucket would be the most effective weapon.
Water is simply dipped from the most appropriate nearby water source with the bucket and then strategically release onto the predetermined area to minimise the spread of a front, or to completely extinguish a hotspot.
On this day, we were extinguishing hotspots that were still present from a fire in the previous summer.
Early in the video I have a malfunction that disabled me from releasing the water, which I soon fixed on the ground and then continued on with the task, hitting flagged areas of concern.
At the end of the video i go over why it probably malfunctioned in the first place.
00:00 start
00:01 setting up the bucket
00:46 startup
01:42 takeoff
02:38 looking for targets
03:00 looking for water source
03:45 first dip
05:04 bucket malfunction
06:44 round 2
7:17 first drop
08:16 second target
09:30 trying deeper water source
11:40 new targets
13:09 new water source
14:03 last drop
15:01 packing up the bucket
16:30 picking up the fire crew
18:12 travel chat
18:44 Bucket rectification
19:05 how the Bambi Bucket works
20:49 testing new bucket configuration
23 by Chayce Beckham, t.lickd.co/Lv01eBOL0GZ License ID: xnDJmnEJPqb
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5 июн 2024
