Fire Scout
Helicopters
Alberta, Canada Helitack-
Everything you ever wanted to know about a Canadian rappel crew. Lots of
photos.
BC
Fire Crews Drop into those Hard To Reach Job Sites - General info about
Canadian rapattack program.
BC Rapattack
Page - Canadian helitack/rappel crew.
BLM Helicopter
Standards - Good overview of BLM helitack crew standards and expectations.
BLM Utah Helicopters
- General information with some photos and aircraft descriptions.
Erickson
Air-Crane Company - 2,000 gallons, no waiting.
Equipment
and Support for the Aerially Delivered Firefighter - Short abstract
of poster given during FireInfo 97.
A Female Firefighter's
Home Page - Memaloose Helibase slider.
Fire
teams' fittest descend into hell - Short article on Australian sliders.
Firefighting in
Idaho - Krassel Helitack Crew on Idaho's Payette National Forest
HeliSpot - For rotor lovers (not
fire specific, but a "fire birds" section).
International Helicopter Firefighters
Association - New association dedicated to international helicopter
firefighting operations.
Los Angeles
County Fire Department - Details on their air operations section.
Malheur Rappel
Crew - Unofficial page (I was on the crew in 1998).
Malheur Rappel Crew - August 1997 WILDLAND
FIREFIGHTER magazine article on Oregon USFS team (no longer online).
Medical
Evacuation - Chapter out of Army Field Manual 8-10-6. Good info
on helo medevac procedures.
Monument Helitack
- Region 2 Forest Service crew.
OAS OPM 21 - Interagency
Fire Helicopter Standards (.PDF).
OAS OPM 97-10 -
Operations procedure memo on rappel and short haul operations (.PDF).
Rappel
video - QuickTime movie of British Columbia, Canada rappel team.
Ravendale Helitack
- BLM, California crew.
SEI Industries -
Manufacturer of the Bambi Bucket and other aerial delivery systems.
V-22 -
Boeing rotorcraft - the military has done rappel tests out of it, so why
not use it for fire? (besides the cost)
Wingman's Home
Page - Slider page devoted to beer and fire.
OK, it's not wildland fire specific, but the following may be useful,
or at least interesting, to rotorheads. The US Army has put quite a number
of its training manuals online (in either HTML or PDF format), including
a number of titles relating to helicopters. Here they are:
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FM
1-112 ATTACK HELICOPTER OPERATIONS, 02 APRIL 1997
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FM-113
UTILITY AND CARGO HELICOPTER OPERATIONS, 12 SEPTEMBER 1997
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FM
1-140 HELICOPTER GUNNERY, 25 JUNE 1997
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FM
1-514 FUNDAMENTALS OF ROTOR AND POWER TRAIN MAINTENANCE-TECHNIQUES &
PROCEDURES, 05 APRIL 1991
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TC
1-209 AIRCREW TRAINING MANUAL - OBSERVATION HELICOPTER, OH-58D AVIATOR/
OBSERVER, 09 DECEMBER 1992
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TC
1-211 AIRCREW TRAINING MANUAL - UTILITY HELICOPTER UH-1, 09 DECEMBER 1992
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TC
1-213 AIRCREW TRAINING MANUAL - ATTACK HELICOPTER AH-1, 09 DECEMBER 1992
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TC
1-215 AIRCREW TRAINING MANUAL: OBSERVATION HELICOPTER OH-58A/C, 02 MARCH
1993
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TC
1-216 AIRCREW TRAINING MANUAL - CARGO HELICOPTER CH-47, 08 OCTOBER 1992
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