Rain, cooler weather dampens Blue Bay, Liberty fires

Nicole Tavenner
A Chinook (CH-47D) helicopter scoops water from Blue Bay on Friday morning. It has a capacity of carrying 1500 gallons of water with a 4 minute turn-around time to the blaze east of the Flathead Lake.

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Nicole Tavenner/Valley Journal Pilots of the Chinook (CH-47D) Jeffrey Freimund and Roger Capps take a very brief lunchbreak at the Ronan Airport after a full moring fighting the blazes in Blue Bay fires 1 and 2. They were then off for the afternoon to work more at the Rice Ridge Fire in Seeley Lake.

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Issue Date: 8/16/2017
Last Updated: 8/16/2017 11:07:10 AM |
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Caleb M. Soptelean
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