today about 11am I heard a helicopter flying short turns over our village. When I went up onto our terrace, I saw it turning above but couldn`t make out if he had a waterbucket underneath. When I heard sirens from the village below, we were convinced that there was a fire somewhere and as it is a really great sight when the helicopter gets the water out of our village pool, I grabbed my camera and we set off to get some nice pics of the helicopter. Blame me for just thinking about the pics: we experienced a servere fire about 6 years ago when we were only lucky that the wind blew the right direction and so we learnt to live with the fear. That time, the flames were only about 600 m away from our house, uphill. That night was orange red...
And this is why it is so important that kids are told about the fierceness of fire and the easyness this destruction can happen...anytime and anywhere on our dry little island
I lost sight of the helicopter while driving up to our village pool and it was my farther in-law who spotted it right below the pool on the soccer field next to the village school.
The schoolkids were allowed to have a closer look into the heli
You can see the orange waterbucket underneath
Then the firemen got into the helicopter and they prepared for T/O
Great sound when they change gears to lift off:
They positioned the helicopter right before the kids and did a 360º turn to show off. Then they turned left and passed by closely overhead of me...
Hm, my camera is allright...I just have to learn to use her better