Beware of water bombers
Submitted: Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:43
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Pauly
G'day all this cant be true but a guy told me that there was a bush fire and the
water bombers were called in, later when the fire was out they found a body with a wetsuit,
tank and mask the only reason they can come with is that when the
water bomber picked up its load from the river it picked up a scube diver.
imagine that!
Happy
trails
Pauly
Reply By: Wayne (NSW) - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:48
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:48
Pauly,
Heard that one years ago but it happenend in America.
Wayne
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Follow Up By: Davoe - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:56
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:56
thought it was france
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Follow Up By: Wazza (Vic) - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 21:29
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 21:29
The version I heard was France as
well.
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Follow Up By: Savvas - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:31
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:31
One I heard was US and itw as coastal, so the diver was scooped up out of the ocean.
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Reply By: Davoe - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:56
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 19:56
www.snopes.com urban myth
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Reply By: Member - John C (QLD) - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:06
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:06
Of course it was Amercia....land of the free but screw the rest of you.
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Reply By: Member - Blue (VIC) - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:12
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:12
Wasn't that on CSI
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Reply By: Rick Blaine - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:35
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 20:35
I thought that happened in
Canberra during the fires in 2001...and that it was our chief ministerin the wetsuit..no???
well it should have been... the bloke has given evidence at the inquest into the fires and after our local govenment elections has declared himself the Attorney General running the inquest... but considers that there is no conflict of interest....
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Reply By: duncs - Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 22:05
Sunday, Oct 31, 2004 at 22:05
I am pretty sure the story of picking up a diver is urban myth, however, watching out for the
water bombers is good advice.
I was at a bushfire in northern
Sydney a couple of years back when that monster "Elvis" dropped its 9 tonne of
water about 10m from me and my drew. Trust me you don't want to get hit by that.
Duncs
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Follow Up By: 28patrol - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 00:19
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 00:19
Story line on CSI yonks ago
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Follow Up By: Savvas - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:33
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:33
I don't think I'd want to be hit by 9 tonnes of anything
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Follow Up By: Vince NSW - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:48
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:48
What were uyou doing anywhere near the
water drop. The Min safety distance for the Air Crane is 500 mt. & 50 mt for the Jet
Ranger with it's 500 lt bucket. Suggest you & your crew should have been else where, but it is a problem when the RFS will not allow crews on the ground to have coms with the air support.
Just me having a bad morning.
Vince
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Follow Up By: Member - Bradley- Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:01
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:01
Ha Minimum distance ??? try Vic, cfa protocol is that you are supposed to clear all crews from area with radio conformation before
water drop, But i have seen it happen a few times, and have even had a load dropped on myself and a few crew while fighting in a gully with knapsacks/ rakehoes. Yeah not happy jan.. I know i could sure as hell see
the pilot in the jetranger so he could sure see us in our flouro yellow 'monkey suits' . It's just a political shiza fight down here nowdays and it's just going to get more crews killed by morons.
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Follow Up By: duncs - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:55
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:55
Vince,
I am with NSWFB and had no radio contact with Elvis, a luxury reserved for RFS crews, I only had contact '`with the forward control. We were \zxcvfighting a fire at the back of a group of houses and had been there for about 20 min. The fire was burning at ground level and flame hight was not more than 1m. It was under control. Elvis had been flying in the area and directly over us for the entire time I was there. He seemed to be working on a larger fire front about 1km from us. We were simply under the flight path between that fire and the supply Elvis was using. The drop was not needed and as far as I have been able to find out it was not called for. He just decided to drop this lot on us, no it wasn't fun.
Duncs
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Reply By: flappan - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:15
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 09:15
Not only is it a myth , but they have tested it to prove that its impossible . . .
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Follow Up By: firefighter - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 13:14
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 13:14
i am with patonga rural fire brigade i went out and bought a rfs pmr/grn radio for about $700 and i am always in contact with any aircraft on the fire ground
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Follow Up By: Member - Brian (Gold Coast) - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:26
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:26
flappan,
It makes a good yarn, but I hadn't heard that it had been tested and proved impossible. What's the story there mate?
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Follow Up By: KiwiAngler - Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:38
Monday, Nov 01, 2004 at 20:38
Urban myth...was also proven impossible a few weeks ago on "Myth Busters' which is currently running on Foxtel
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Reply By: mitch - Friday, Nov 05, 2004 at 21:51
Friday, Nov 05, 2004 at 21:51
Its not a myth , it happened to me !
Lucky for me , after the fall , l got better and csi stole my story !
Im going to sue , dont you worry about that !
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