A little smokey here

[wifesaysno]

http://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/centr ... width=full

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

The Buzzard Complex fire ALONE right now is at 180,000+acres and still going.
As of yesterday these are the known large tankers working Oregon:

VLAT (very large air tanker) DC-10 Tanker 911
DC-7 Tanker 66
DC-7 Tanker 152 (which just arrived from ALASKA!)
DC-7 Tanker 62
P2V Neptune Tanker 07
P2V Neptune Tanker 44
BAe 146 Tanker 10
BAe 146 Tanker 01

Plus it sounds like a dozen SEATs (Single Engine Air Tankers) most likely Air Tractor 802Fs and a large number of heli-tacks with bambi buckets. I do not know how many, but it sounds like every HotShot, Smoke Jumper, rural fire engine, and hand crew they could find is out "there" fighting these fires

Been a REALLY smokey week.

Hats off to the air tanker crews, near 100degrees and they still run the tankers non-stop sun up to sun down

[wifesaysno]

Currently at KRDM




Tanker (1)52 Convair 580 (?)
SEAT Tanker 874 Air Tractor 802F
Tanker 01 BAe 146
Tanker 66 & 62 DC-7

All GROUNDED due to very poor visibility from a heavy layer of smoke.

[PhantomTweak]

Boy howdy, it's smokey! Hard on the eye (yes I only have one left), not to mention the sinuses! We (me and the lovely wife) are extremely grateful to all those involved in combatting it!

Pat☺