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- So far this year's wildfire season in California is on track to match last year's-- which was the worst on record. That's created a need for more manpower-- not just on the ground but in the skies above them. Vice New's Michael Anthony Adams embedded with Firewatch Cobra-a team of pilots, mechanics, and data specialists organized by the US Forest Service.
Together, they man a Vietnam-era combat chopper retrofitted with hi-tech computers, cameras, and infrared sensors hovering thousands of feet above the flames. Acting as a communication relay station in the sky, the Firewatch team helps coordinate the more than 40 helicopters and other aircraft called in to help.
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" The main thing we do is aerial supervision. "
Here in NC we are fortunate enough ( or were when I was employed) to have a small plane designated just for this job.
Believe me, eyes in the sky save lives. Everyone with the NCFS talks of Calfire groups with respect. Some of our guys would go there after the NC fire season was over and help out.
A great group of guys in any state.
Thanks for your service and be safe.
They would run planes over this fire a few times a day to check for heat signatures and hotspots, but many days the smoke was so bad they couldn't even allow a plane to go up in those conditions. This fire was a monster, but it is quickly becoming the new normal for California forests :(
@@allenschermerhorn941 Sorry to hear that. Our terrain and fires are not the same as in Cal. North Carolina utilities bulldozers ( called tractors ) with specialized plows to cut a fireproof lane near the fire.
The overhead plane ( pilot may be directing several fires if close enough) directs tractor operator and keeps them from being overwhelmed by approaching fire.
@@sammylacks4937 That is how it is in Mississippi where I work. Our fires are even smaller than in NC. I may only have a few "large" fires a year. But we do a lot of fire patrol flights certain times of the year.
So thankful for these public servants. As a Californian I am forever grateful for those we don’t often hear from that work to get the job done.
Amen
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These people been telling you for years about forest management but you don't listen. Keep electing the same type idiots.
You should be thankful for the thousands of PRISONERS being forced into firefighting. The ones not being given any care during or after for their efforts. Google how many of them are actually dying in those fires... No one cares. No one talks about it.
@@CriticoolHit I am thankful to them too. This issue got some coverage last year. I think what they’re paid and how they are treated is terrible. The fact that they fight fires but can’t get the same job after being released is horrific and should change.
All these efforts and everyone involved knows the fires will come back, bigger and angrier, next year. Feels apocalyptic.
And all those helicopters are burning fossil fuels and emitting co2 into the atomosphere, adding to the problem overall. Bitter.
@@ethugp3pp3r the fires are adding co2 into the atmosphere
@@ethugp3pp3r the real threat is chem trails/ wether modification do some research to find aluminum oxide being sprayed in the air causing rapid fire combustion
@@sergiothegrower 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Shoutout CALFIRE, just saved our home up in trinity, god blessem
Awesome to see a Cobra given new purpose. What a cool gunship.
Yes I love the look of that thing
I always wondered what we did with the single engine Cobras, this is what!
You can buy one if you want, lots of cobras out there but they’re all restricted instead of standard category; you can’t take one for a joyride over San Francisco. Forest Service has 2.
Nukes are hard to come by.
Most went to other countries. Fortunately some are making it to civilian pilots. They weren't really useful to police forces like the oh-58s, oh-6s and hueys. So not as many survived
As while fire fighting are profitable, fires will never end.
@@ChevTecGroup A Cobra is just a slimmed down UH1. Plenty of parts, need a lot of work once they’re demill’d to balance them out. Awesome platform, plenty available. They don’t look friendly flying over your house and they aren’t S rated. Prob main reasons.
7:05 Just a guy with a killer mullet! Love that someone in the editing room was like, yeah put a several second clip of this guy in there 😂
Hell yeah brother! 😎🤙🏼
Hehe his name is Scoville
Hehehehehe..
That's hot
As while fire fighting are profitable, fires will never end.
Thank you for saving happy Valley fireteam Cobra. At the beginning it is the Valley he is showing on the map. There is nowhere else in the world like it. I'm so glad it's still there.
Still can't understand why idle military choppers aren't mobilized and outfitted with water buckets to douse wildfires
Because it's newsoms California
@@scottanos9981 Same Newsom that made it so that big retailers can't infringe upon worker's bathroom breaks like Amazon. Oooh so horrible, don't forget free community college
@@fishfan2 Same Newsom that allowed for Walgreens and Targets in the Bay Area to be robbed without repercussion because of "wokeness"
6:37
My brother, his crew, and so many others fought.
I am forever thankful.
Mark Scoville? That dudes in the right profession!
I'm still traumatized from last year...
Excellent journalism VICE!
Great job guys. Thank you for your service. May God bless you and yours.
Orange November Whiskey is out there with that sick water mist.
politicians need to be held accountable. we need stricter measures to act against climate change.
@Justin Y. OK Nazi
@Justin Y. how? I don't like Israel at all but how are they to blame for this?
Climate change is code word for God's destruction and tribulation.
@@pyrojunkyz510 because they are involved in every American problem
We're lead by the least of us; Holding useless people accountable will get us nowhere.
Useful people need to step up.
a cobra? damn that's cool!
Thank you, firefighters.
Thank you for your service
I delivered one of the cameras that that helicopter uses... I think it was insured for 3mill
They have the quality of a $20 camera. And the reliability of a McDonalds ice cream machine
All of the firefighters are awesome but we would be lost without these guys.
A lot of the time they will head down to Australia to help our firefighters in the fire season down here.
So it’s nonstop for some of them… They are over worked and under appreciate and paid
Is there an international fire organisation, I would love to join the fight. ?
As a firefighter from the Blue Mountains Australia it's always been a relief to hear the first water bombing aircraft on approach. These people are angles.
agreed lol
Angels*
@@jellalfernandes1309 Ha I'm also dyslexic.
They’re acute
@@boglenight1551 I guess they are now. Damn my spelling gets me every time.
Living in placerville this was very scary
Losing your home is such a huge thing, I can't even imagine losing all those memories and assets
WOW....just amazing insight and people. 💪😎
Well we got about 6-8 hours of steady light rain here in Fresno near the complex fire. Then about two days to dry followed by intense winds that lasted over 12 hours. It went from yes! To oh no!
Cobra, badass, it can do rolls ! In the air !
Wildfire "Season"...hurricane "season"..rainy "season"...
If you recognize some so clearly to call it a season, how can you be surprised and over come when it happens?
We as Wildland firefighters we don’t go home like he said in the video…. We stayed in camp 🏕 we don’t go home we stay and help everyone
How does one get hired on the ground?
Thank you for your service!!!
Remember the 2019 -2020 bushfires in Australia. 46 million acres were burnt. The biggest fire record in Human history.
No one does because we’re not Americans
Was that in rural areas, or near populated areas?
@@internet_internet East coast of Australia from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Which one software are forest service using???
Scovilles pretty hawt
Did he say 19 firefighters have died from crashes? As in helicopter crashes? I think he meant died from fires
No he meant crashes. They happen every year when we have so many aircraft operating at these incidents.
I’m right on newtown road by The snow ridge that shii was hella close 😳
These guys need to be paid more.
Last year an American said they didn’t care about the people caught in our fires, at the time including my sister who lives in outer Canberra and suffers from severe asthma, saying they only care about the animals. Now, I can either stoop to that level or rise above it, the problem is being someone who’s had to face several wildfires myself and knowing the danger involved I’m left with no choice but to emotionally be caught up in what’s happening in California, however Americans may treat others my heart will always care about them.
Weird flex but ok
God bless our firefighters working on the frontlines to contain these fires from burning our homes and our beautiful landscape. From a resident in the southern county, thank you!!
Fox never reports on this or the severity of the fires. Bless the hero’s here fighting fires.
... what is the point of this post?
Because of California and their liberal policies that cause fires every year
more military surplus could help
It's acc mad how these fires can happen spontaneously.
Most are started by lightning but many by are started by people too.
Some of them are started by the minds of teenage girls that are getting bullied in middle school.
The land here is adapted to fire. Mixed with humans things have gone wrong.
@@deadtome44 You're actually not wrong. Wildfires used to serve the important purpose of "cleaning" the landscape. Because humans tried their darndest to stop fires, it lead to a mass amount of what is effectively fuel (organic matter) laying on the ground. What we're seeing now is all that accumulation finally setting off.
@@lilbacon7777 Wildfires were more common in the past and supported a healthy ecological balane, but those fires were cooler and smaller according to historical data. Yes, humans have historically limited natural fire, leading to a backlog of fuel. There have also been about a hundred thousand homes pushed into these forests in the last 20 years, creating an added high fire risk. Add long-term drought, many diseased trees, hotter temps and more winds: there's a recipe for catastrophic fires.
Note that western Canada has few limits on logging, less fuel accumulation, and still has mega-fires like much of the US west.
5:33 why they trying to take the water out on the shallow side by all the cabins....when the lakes full its hardly chest high. The side by the damn is like 15 to 20 feet deep
If you crash it better to crash near the shore.
Better than taking no water
This video was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
*sideeye* *giggle*
My wife asks me if she has been different since shes been taking prego hormones. I look at her like an idiot and say how so, after she details veiled vague outlines. I exclaim This reminds me of an admiral akbar quote look it up. Then i ran!
Lol his name is Mark Scoville.
Mad times
😳😳
I wonder how bad it would be if we did nothing.
These guys and gals are heroes we should also bring up how much they're -not- paid and how little we support them with healthcare and mental health services. The average Forest service firefighter in California makes less than $15 an hour. They like teachers should be getting hazardous duty pay why don't we compensate these folks more we're failing
Watch Bring Your Own Brigade...
Difficult
they can install oil and gas pipeline why not water lines to contain fire
To install 'sprinkler systems' in the forests would be more difficult and expensive than bailing the ocean.
No one talks about my crew members that lost there lifes on the front line in the ground working day and night all lives makes
Please can some one tell them that is a team work not one group
They used to send my bro to fight fires when he was in the pen for 23 cents an hour…
Maybe you guys should just rake the forest
Science doesn't know
california need a bunch of Canadair!
This is not by 'accident'. May the Heavens support their cause. They are 'genuine' souls.
Yeah, climate change isn't an accident.
Follow wyoming and Montana
First of all thank you public servants. Secondly do you think that having residents clear their own lots in the forest will help with fire control? I have a lot of experience in my youth of clearing the brush around our cabin in the mountains and the forest rangers there in the San Bernardino Mountains were very very strict about that. Now I know that the Caldor Fire was in the Sierra and I just want to know if the Sierra get the services due to being in a national park rather than a state forest or something like that. What are the boundaries. I'm not for clearing out completely old growth forests however I am for saving Californians and even the Federal Government tax money. I like volunteers but I think we bet put more money back in the taxpayers pockets or money and goods are going to be more and more scarce.
This will get worst every year as the planet warms and the drought continues. We have to consider building fire-resistant homes with fire buffers or avoid expanding homes in wildfire-prone areas.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. -Steve Jobs...
Marshmallow roasting season
You're gonna need a bigger marshmallow... :-)
Politicians need to be accountable. We need broad action against climate change!
Urban development is that cancer of the earth
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FUND the FIREFIGHTERS!!!
among us
Seriously though.... why doesn't a nuclear bomb sized fire extinguisher exist?
Honestly ... if you´ve got such a huge military which is eating up so much money... why don´t you guys give em some extra training and some add ons to get those fires out faster.
And its not like there arent people in the military trained for this kind of thing. They just arent deployed.
Many of these aircrafts are prior military aircraft, the fires are dynamic and growing at unprecedented rates.
Just cut the military and get actual proper firefighters.
And stop fucking up the climate to cause them in the first place.
Even shorter answer to most problems vice reports: "America, grow a brain"
we actually do train military pilots to firefight, national guard.
@@aenorist2431 that'd be too easy. It makes too much sense too! That's not how americans work. 🤣
vice... stop this damn geoblocking already... its annoying to switch the damn VPN server all the time just for 1 video...
Its probably not their doing intentionally. Its probably TH-cam.
Politicians and Military top officials need to be held accountable for letting oil companies do this… 70% of emissions are contributed by the top 1% of oil companies
Only 200k acres? *Laughs in Australian*
It’s not funny…
Over 8 million acres in just 5 years.
@@chiefearthhealer8099 people freaking out about Greece and California makes me laugh but yeah australia burning is sad.
We always see news channels talking about fires and the disaster it is causing. But they never talk about how Fire Terminator can help extinguish or prevent all fires.
Ooohh ma gaaad what a joke!
6:58. I love the pilot's heads up display. 😆😅
Its sad whats happening All around the World. Please know I'm praying and sending good energy yr way. 🕊🌹🦋🌹
Vice maybe u can send some man power instead of putting up yr Title and video for views, No ya don't say!??
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As while fire fighting are profitable, fires will never end.
Its all planned for more houses 🏘
I thought America can only fight war in other countries . Now they need to fight fire. Rip American world peace
Peace
What is required to get hired as a boots-on-the-ground guy out there?
Believe it or not firefighting is pretty competitive
@@fishfan2 I know. Where I live it requires college.
Do you know what is required to get hired out there?
@@internet_internet I was looking into firefighting a while back and yeah you have to have a clean record, you have to take fire science classes, enroll into the academy, get emt certified, pass the cpat and some other test. At least here in California they're pretty selective and that's just to be a firefighter in general like the city. Woodland firefighters go through even more brutal physical training
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Who is starting these fires?
Why does the heli pilot look like a Jeff bozzo that cares
That’s not the pilot…
@@markvoelker6805 wait, the guy who pilots the heli isn't a real pilot. 3:50
@@yurionabike99 I’m the pilot and sit behind the guy in the front seat. He handles the cameras, FLIR and radios. Together we put ourselves where we need to be to get the work done.
I am the real pilot.
@@bomberman503 Indeed, the Orange November Wizard!
CLEARING LAND FOR REALESTATE
After my hometown in California got burnt down I moved to AZ. And years later while driving in the middle of the desert I heard a AD on the radio saying land for sale!! All around Butte county, rich! Open land!!!… yeah I bet there is…..
@@bloodmakesthegrassgrow594 THEY CANT CLEAR IT LEGALY BECAUSE OF THE PROTECTED FOREST LAWS BUT....FIRE HMM LETS TAKE MONTHS AND YEARS TO PUT IT OUT. WE CAN MAKE AI LOOK AND TALK LIKE HUMANS BUT CANT PUT OUT A FIRE! COME ON
It's probably not the right way but since they brought up Vietnam they should get like 40 747s full of water and carpet bomb the fire
4 words: Stimulate your fu*king senses
I have noticed that the east coast press hardly mentions west coast fires being that they are only capable of covering one subject at any one time. It would be nice if they would show public employees that really have a passion about what they do instead of just another FBI screw up or Biden muttering incoherently.
Time to put more resources into Forest Management..Gotta cut down a bunch of trees to save the Majority
Both federal and state government has failed us
Real question why don’t we send our troops to fight the fires Instead of fighting for oil?………wait a minute the rich men need their oil and money from it.
certain people in government thinks it's california's fault even though it's a lot of federal land in CA. another reason is that they think climate change is fake so they pumping trash into the atmosphere expecting nothing bad will happen just to make a buck. oh, and fighting fires doesn't make money for most companies.
you middle class people won’t get it
National Guard and reserve have been working on these fires in northern California
The National Guard does come in to help with the logistics of wildfires and sometimes military helicopters come in to assist firefighters on the ground. But you have to remember, it takes highly trained, highly motivated people to actually go out there in the woods with the fires and do that job. You can't just take a bunch of guys who've been trained to mechanic on tanks or shoot a badguy at 600 yards and send them out to risk their lives in a wildfire. They would end up making mistakes to get themselves or someone else killed. There is a reason Wildland firefighters undergo such rigorous training and work hard in the offseason to stay fit and up to par.
Now if they want to give forest service firefighters a budget like the military, I'd be all for that.
@@gmatwater I think what they are illustrating is the stupid amounts of money that goes into defense of and active war on others, with even a drop of that budget these teams could do much more
Wildfires are a good thing
When will show about prison slave labor.
Why is the reporter wearing his helmet backwards?
Like it was assembled the wrong way.
If the reporter was wearing a helmet why wasn't the Battalion Chief wearing his?
Great story on firefighting resources!
When will the story on the human factors holding the US Forestry back from properly engaging wild fires be up?
If people actually used there brains they would be paying people to clear out the fuel and employee people who need the work and exercise
Let's just keep the fires going dont learn from other countries like Greece that had the same problem and started using goats to cut down the brush ....but hey keep trying it your way it hasn't worked for my entire life but hey maybe it'll work one day👽
Wow, these are some talented goats, I didn’t know they can operate chainsaws, masticators, and bulldozers! /s
Seriously though, Greece still has a pretty bad fire problem this summer, so I’m not sure that’s the right thing to do. Also, these fires are so intense that they’re sending embers flying up to a mile away, and lighting the crowns of trees on fire like huge torches. Goats aren’t going to be taking down fully grown pine trees.
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They should use the military to help with all the planes they have it’s still a state of emergency the guard should be used it would help Nd take a lot of others shoulders
The national guard are police/ security not firemen with advanced training. The national guard has essentially no training so having them in charge if a highly volatile situation is not ideal
We do use the guard and the reserve. Fixed wing are called MAFFS and rotor wing guard shows up in chinooks and blackhawks. They try to keep the professional contractor machines and the guard separated w rotor wing.
@@joecambodia1326 also c-130s
Cal Fire trained a bunch of people from the California National Guard earlier this summer, and they’re out helping put out the KNP Complex fire right as we speak.
Fun fact they force prisoners to fight the fire
No, they don't. They volunteer.
@@RichardFStripeRendezvous and why do they do that
Why? Because it puts them in a class above the usual thugs. And because it gets them the hell out of jail. Inmate firefighters only qualify if they meet certain criteria and if they meet the right physical standards. When they complete their training by Cal Fire, they get to go out and do honest work and be around mostly normal humans. And when they are finished with the program and they get out of jail, they can apply to go to work for Cal Fire which pays better than a lot of other jobs.
@@gmatwater the us has massively longer prison sentences than comparable countries. Each year California saves 100 million in tax dollars using prisoners to fight fire, aswell as perform various other kinds of labor for the profit, do you think there might be an incentive to have such high prison sentences to extract this free labor?
@@ababababaababbba not necessarily. As I've said, only certain people qualify. If a prisoner is an arsonist or a sexual offender or if they fail any number of other criteria, or if they don't meet the physical standard, they're not suitable. Which is to say, the majority of offenders probably don't qualify as firefighters. And they have to volunteer, they aren't drafted.
I bet it is just as difficult as it is to get rid of gavin newsom