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Rainfall helps firefighters at Cowichan wildfire; crew parachutes into remote spot

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Airborne!

Rainfall helps firefighters at Cowichan wildfire; crew parachutes into remote spot​


In a first for Vancouver Island, a seven-person “parattack” crew flew here in a fixed-wing aircraft, parachuted in adjacent to the fire and spent the night there. Such crews specialize in accessing remote or hard-to-reach locations, with this one traveling from Fort St. John.

 
Airborne!

Rainfall helps firefighters at Cowichan wildfire; crew parachutes into remote spot​


In a first for Vancouver Island, a seven-person “parattack” crew flew here in a fixed-wing aircraft, parachuted in adjacent to the fire and spent the night there. Such crews specialize in accessing remote or hard-to-reach locations, with this one traveling from Fort St. John.

I looked inside of one of their Turbo DC-3s once and at their gear.

If you ever did the basic para course, everything looks familiar enough.
 
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