We had a huge brush fire this week, the same time L.A. had their wild fires. The scene was cool, the helicopters were using my neighborhood baseball field as a water pickup area. at first they used two helicopters, then three. the fire forced the police to shut down H-2 one of 3 highways here. The helicopters did this for about 4 hours, I was out there for only 20 minutes. At one point i was only about 4o yards away from the helicopter. It was a great way to waste some time during the day, and try out my new camera. The whole thing created a big scene as you could imagine. all this was happening right in the middle of the neighborhoods around here.