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CalFire Copter 106

Early on a June afternoon San Jose Fire Department responded to a vegetation fire in Kelley Park near downtown San Jose.

The fire was burning in an open grass field and into a gully with heavy scrub leading to a creek. Once the fire got into the heavy brush the incident was escalated to a Tier 2 Wildland response. In addition to the Tier 2 response from San Jose Fire, CalFire was requested to respond Copter 106 and two hand crews. Fire crews were on scene for 6 hours plus dealing with the 15 acre fire.

Here CalFire Copter 106 is in air attack mode.

In 1981, CalFire acquired 12 UH-1F helicopters from the Air Force. They were modiﬁed for ﬁre ﬁghting and used by CalFire until 1990 when they were replaced by newer, highly modiﬁed, Vietnam-era UH-1H helicopters.

Referred to as the “Super Huey”, CalFire has nine available statewide.

To see the full set from this incident check out YourFireDepartment.org - Roberts IC

Taken in: United States / California / San Jose (show map)

Taken on: June 3, 2013

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D, f/8.0, 1/500 sec, 200mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D
Lens:	Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	200mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Aperture 3.4.4
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