July 17, 2008 about 12:30 pm...New pictures and comments for our neighbor and contributor Eric Walters:
"Looks like there are two main areas of fire activity.
This pic shows the same shot I took last night with the fire moving nicely away from the Lambert Flats area and the dozer line visible."
"The fire looks great - everything inside the dozer line. They are really working the lower area where the dozer line heads out towards the Cahoon Summit. I can confirm that there are no smokes on the other side of Carmel Valley Road, despite the MODIS satellite infrared-sensed hot spot maps."
This picture shows the view from Hastings at 11:00 am towards Los Padres Dam.
This view is down Carmel Valley Road towards Arroyo Seco and looking over Cahoon Summit.
Infrared (IR - heat sensing) equipped helicopter shows the IR equipment dangling ('protruding' a better word?? Too small to see in any case) below the helicopter as it flies over the burnout operation.
The IR-equipped chopper on this fire is a specially-equipped Bell AH-1 Cobra, called a "Firewatcher"
This picture is a close up view of the burnout operation near the trout farm along Carmel Valley Road.
Note the huge flame tower mid-picture.
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Clear Unpleasant Danger....
Our neighbor Terry called and asked a really GOOD question:
"If there is imminent danger, will those who stayed behind through the Mandatory Evacuation Notice be warned to once more to depart the area?"
So, I sent a message via a fast rider on horseback to Bear Kimber over at Cachagua Fire, in the Green Zone.
Her answer was:
"Absolutely, the Sheriffs will do everything they can to make sure that each and every person is warned again if there is imminent danger"
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When the sheriff patrol came up to our house we were told that this would be our only warning and we would be on our own. Sign here and include your dentist, thank you very much.
Infrared sensors don't dangle below a helicopter. But helitorches do. I could not tell from your photo, but it is likely the helicopter was using a device slung about 25' below, that drops burning, jellied gasoline, basically Napalm, in order to ignite the vegetation. Other aerial ignition devices drop objects much like ping pong balls which ignite about 30 seconds after they are dispensed from the open door of the helicopter.
Bwaahahahahah!!!! They couldn't find us for the ME what makes you think they can find us if it all hits the fan????????????
Anon,
Regarding the use of the term 'dangle,' it may hve been simply a poor choice of words.
Perhaps the contributor meant 'protrude' which - depending on the IF system manufacturer, it certainly does, from a turret or a gimbal on the bottom of the aircraft.
Have you knowledge of this specific system? If so, can you share the details??
Thanks!!
Kelly
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