This video features four different Conair Air Tractor AT-802 Fire Boss waterbombers in action fighting the Sitkum Creek / Duhamel Creek forest fire just outside of Nelson, British Columbia. This has been one of the earliest fire seasons in British Columbia, with wildfires raging across the province. It was quite the impressive sight to see these amphibious air tankers in action scooping up water from Kootenay Lake.
You can also see an Air Spray Lockheed L-188 Electra performing a retardant drop on the fire and a Conair Convair CV580 tanker in the distance.
It was great to see all these impressive turboprop aerial firefighting water bomber aircraft in action, especially getting the close-up views of the Fire Boss seaplanes filling up their tanks. We are very thankful here in the Kootenays for all the hard work put in by the forest fire fighters across the province.
11 июл 2015
