Categories: Chalk Fire

Chalk Fire, Night 4: Air Show

There were several planes and a spotter up this afternoon. I wish I could post them all, but I need some sleep. I chose this series, as i had the most sequential shots of this run. It was like watching the most orchestrated ballet. It was visual poetry. You pilots put on quite a show. I am grateful I was provided a front row seat. Thank you!!

I got a call today, Thursday, October 2, 2008 from Philip Darnell, who runs these guys out of Paso Robles, who informed me that the gutsy pilot in T-25 is Bill Waldman. What a treat I had, Bill!! Thank you. Also running the same line, doing the same thing in T-23 was another gutsy pilot, Brent Connors. Wow!!

I also got some shots of you guys yesterday laying down line back at McKern Rd. You probably saw me standing up in the bed of a Toyota Pick-up truck, taking pics and waiving? That was me.






bigsurkate

Appointed appellate counsel for indigent defendants (retired.) I have lived in Big Sur since 1984, first on the north coast, and on the South Coast since 1989.

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  • Super job, Kate!!! This has to be a "classic" sequence of shots... and would make a fire service aviation aficionado drool!

  • Kate - Thanks for showing me how good my husband looks on the job! With the great Pacific Ocean in the background, this is a first of a kind shot of Bill in his 40-year career.

  • Amazing sequence! That gutsy pilot Bill Waldman is my uncle and this is the most original shot I've seen of him flying.

  • thanks mike boone for calling in ALL the air suppoet to save our lily whites!!!!! Love from the Baird clan

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