Air Attack Grizzly Creek Fire 2020

FIRE in Glenwood Canyon, you could see the smoke from my house and so I drove to Transfer Trail to the saddle and viewed the arial attack on the Grizzly Creek Fire...4 different tankers and multiple spotters and a couple helicopters work on stopping the progress on Day 1 of the fire....one tanker run in particular is hair-raising and the pilot has nerves of steel...over 179k views FB...

[@Drew99GT]

Awesome vid! Thanks! gave me goosebumps! Nice to see Colorado signed an exclusive contract with a P3 tanker.

[@anonymos59]

These are DC10 and P3, right?

[@margaretjohnson1808]

Amen thanks so much you wonderful fire fighters

[@DWBurns]

The DC9-80 made those dives gear down with a windshield full of mountain, no sky. Those were the most impressive retardant drops I have ever seen.

[@Jokertuning]

Thats the 747 super tanker and the other big planes are dc10s the dc10 don't get this low this is biggest tanker

[@sanniepstein4835]

@@Jokertuning Huh? Does the 747 have the engines back near the tail? I don't think so.

[@jamesnelson80]

The Erickson MD-83 drop was the most impressive drop I've ever seen! They were flying out of the USFS Jeffco Tanker Base in Broomfield and I believe they were also flying out of Grand Junction. I couldn't read the number on the tail but Erickson had several MD-83s involved. The MD-83s had to put the gear and flaps down because of the air flow. The retardant was sucked into the engines if the gear and flaps weren't down. I shot photos of the MD-83s flying out of the Jeffco Tanker Base showing retardant splashed up over the leading edge of the wing.

[@hawker7488]

How did they even take off carrying the weight of the pilots balls?

[@joaquinguzman8315]

These pilots and crew members are brave beyond!

[@Jokertuning]

Crew has nothing to do with it this is the biggest tanker he's only one who gets this low the dc10s don't get this low or the c130

[@curtyowellairtankerbaseadv]

Definitely subscribing because of this video. Hope to see more like this in the future.

[@BillyBoB_508]

Sometimes it's hard to believe the plane can even fly with how heavy the pilots balls of steel are on board.

[@karloarsch1579]

Why not flying an MD80, or what it was exactly, like a aerobatic plane or a fighter jet, if you can?

[@dustybottoms2780]

I’d like to see pilot footage of that down ridge pushover in that MD80

[@noeatSLT]

The pilot was safe. It was 2020 and he was wearing a mask😂

[@darrellcook8253]

Utmost respect for the pilots who know their airplanes and how to fly them. Who knew commercial passenger aircraft could be flown like a groung hugging acrobatic fighter jet bomber.
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[@Riverbed_Dreaming]

Thought those things were meant to have a 100m drop height, not 100ft god damn

[@bubbasizemore4556]

Cool

[@michelszvetecz3243]

ca c'est des champions vive les pompiers volants et les autres aussi

[@ALVATOR]

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[@koklinda5406]

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[@SuperElitenub]

comments are awsome, so are the pilots

[@koklinda5406]

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[@Jokertuning]

Super tanker.pilot is only between 747 and the 4 dc10s that gets this low the dc10s and c130 don't fly like this real.pilot

[@koklinda5406]

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[@thomasmilhamHonda]

A bunch of fowlmouth firewatchers