Click on pics (by AAron B. Hutchins) to make them bigger:
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- Cox’s Well Fire, near Springfield, Idaho. As seen from miles to the south, from the Pocatello Airport.
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- Crews preping S-64 Skycrane to join in battle against Cox’s Well Fire, 10 July 2012.
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- Water/Fire Retardant container on S-64.
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- Engines and rotor head of S-64.
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- Take off to join other air & ground crews in the latest Idaho wildfire battle. At least three dozen wildfires have scorched Idaho so far this year!
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- Operated by Erickson Air-Crane fire fighting service.
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- By 16:00 hours the Cox’s Well Fire burned more than 8,000 acres. Fire fighting crews expected to have it contained by 10:00 hours on 11 July 2012.