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By Jim Messer, Chief Operating OfficerOperations

C-FCLM - has had a busy fire season in California, Oregon and Montana. Most of the time however, was spent operating from her nominated base of Santa Ynez, California. This contract was for four months and ends early October. The flight crew of Gary Wiltrout, Rich Goddard, Randy Mankins, Eric Nance and John Coughlin, supported by the ground crew of Jeff McLeod, Ryan Forrester, Kirk Fong, David Sparrow, Don Wigins, Daryl Jones and Marty McMillan have done a great job supporting our customer.
Once contract is complete CLM will be shipped to Australia for their upcoming fire season.

C-GBSF  - has returned from another summer of supporting the fishing Lodges in Queen Charolotte Islands and is returning to service with Heli-Jet between Vancouver and Victoria.

C-FMAY - Paul Ryan is coordinating re-assembly and maintenance on C-FMAY in Melbourne Australia to return her to service for the State of Victoria fire season. The state has contracted MAY six weeks earlier than the past seasons due to the extreme early fire indices.

C-FXEC - We have positive signals on another 12 month offshore oil contract in Australia for C-FXEC. At this time she is standing by in Melbourne (Essendon Airport) awaiting confirmation of other work.

 

HAWAII MARS
C-FLYL (Hawaii Mars) is still stationed off of Lake Elsinore in Southern California. Recently the crews have experienced a short (4 hour) Santa Ana wind event the kicked off several fires. At time of writing the fire situation was fairly quiet with a cool trend settled over Southern California. Several different Gel products have been tested in conjunction with the USFS laboratory in Missula Montana, with 2 more to go. Attached is a picture of LYL dropping product on Bluff Fire with Firefighters visible on the ridgeline.

 

Above is the Hawaii Mars working on the large Station Fire in Los Angeles.  The Hawaii was called to make drops of gel to coat the fire that threatened a historic observatory, numerous television and radio station towers and cell phone antennas that serve the Los Angeles area.  The Mars crew did an excellent job of hitting the targets and cooling the fire in spite of the heavy smoke.  The good news was the towers were saved.  Below is Hawaii with her Support Equipment at Lake Elsinore.

PHILIPPINE MARS
C-LYK -  Ian Dods has done a great job of leading a team back at Sproat Lake on assembly and testing of Philippine Mars for an upcoming movie shoot in Vancouver. Scheduled for filming October 20th to 23rd is a remake of  “The A-Team”. Flight crews and support crews are jockeying for position to get their shot at the big screen! Should be interesting and lots of fun.