Aircraft

Some of our younger cousins were up for a visit today so my sister and I drove them out to Brite Lake, the local reservoir, for a walk. There has been a fire burning around Oak Creek (roughly behind the mountains in the picture above) for the past three days (I'm told there are 400 firemen working to contain it). When we chose to go out to the reservoir we hadn't considered the fact that it's one of very few lakes in the area and therefore a logical destination for the firefighting helicopters. In the course of our walk we saw four helicopters (or possibly four trips by the same one) crawling down out of the sky to fill their tanks with water. We had good views of all of them, especially the one in the picture above which, when finished with its filling, passed near enough for us to see the pilot waving.