{"id":19244,"date":"2021-08-23T19:28:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19244"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:28:07","slug":"bandera-state-airport-provides-emergency-staging-for-wildland-firefighting-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/washington\/bandera-state-airport-provides-emergency-staging-for-wildland-firefighting-efforts\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Bandera State Airport Provides Emergency Staging for Wildland Firefighting Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helicopter and crew operating at Bandera State Airport (4W0)\nfound the airport to be a perfect place for supporting the Crystal Lake Fire located\nin the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest along interstate 90 Snoqualmie\nPass. Pilot Noel Larsen and Helicopter Manager Jason Hultman, assisted by\nJustin Fulbright and Fuel Support Technician Bryan Sinden, used a Bell UH-1,\nwith water tank helicopter N345WN (modified Bell UH-1 w\/water tank) from\nWashington State DNR, based at Olympia Airport to conduct initial attack\nefforts on a fire located on Granite Mountain, just below the lookout tower.\nWhen the helicopter arrived, crews located two hikers reported to be trapped at\nthe lookout with a fire below that was blocking a nearby trail. The hikers were\nfound safe and helicopter crew later escorted them down the mountain and had\ntwo helitack firefighters begin water dropping operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the fuel support truck arrived at Bandera and the\nclose proximity to the fire allowed crews to drop water through the helicopters\nfull two-hour fuel cycle, conduct hot refueling, and continue suppressing the\nfire. The water drops were reported to be very effective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remote location and time of day meant the helicopter was\nthe only asset able to work the fire on day one. On day two, forest service\ncrews hiked to the fire and the helicopter returned to Bandera for cargo\noperations. Loads were assembled at Bandera and flown to crews at a drop site\nabove the fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The helicopter returned to Bandera on the third day for a\nquick cargo backhaul. Helicopter Manager Jason Hultman reports that \u201c4W0 was\nessential in our success with all missions flown by 345WN on the Crystal Lake\nFire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Water dropped: 10,560 gallons.<\/li><li>Cargo delivered: 2700 lbs.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helicopter and crew operating at Bandera State Airport (4W0) found the airport to be a perfect place for supporting the Crystal Lake Fire located in the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest along interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass. Pilot Noel Larsen and Helicopter Manager Jason Hultman, assisted by Justin Fulbright and Fuel Support Technician Bryan Sinden, used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19245,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19244\/revisions\/19245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}