This Skycrane passed through Cleveland in April 2009. Photo: Bernie Conaway - OPShots Contributor
The phone rang — it was my dad, and it was bad news.
“I’m standing on the sand,” he said, using a phone borrowed from the resident of a Malibu beach house. “I’m looking up the hill and the fire’s heading right for our house. The guys fighting it on the ground can’t get in there. The only hope we’ve got is those big helicopters. One of them’s filling up right behind me.”
via Erickson Air-Crane | Flying Magazine | The World’s Most Widely Read Aviation Magazine.
