EXCELLENT PBS video

[SteveOFD 176]

I just watched this on my local PBS station this morning and I highly recommend watching it. For those in my area, (and cable system) here are the times it will be on. For all others the full video can be found online at PBS.org. According to the PBS site it is viewable ONLINE until 9/18/09, so check it out now!

The video goes behind the scenes of the California Lick fire of September 2007. The CalFire info of the incident can be found here.

Fire operations are followed from the initial dispatch ("report of 50 acres possible to 10,000"), to setting up the logistics of Base Camp, following the Incident Management Team, Ground Operations, Communications Operations, back to demobilization. A very neat thing that they now have access to is a modified Predator aircraft to view real time hotspots.

EXCELLENT VIDEO - check it out today, or view it online before 9/18.

[Bnechis 3,961]

It is being repeated now on WLIW ch 21 (132 on cablevision)