The two seed planes flew 35,000 pounds of seed onto the fire Saturday before they got blown out of the skies by the winds aloft. They had 9,000 pounds left on the deck when they quit. To date that makes 60,000 pounds on the fire area.
Today (Sunday) they took a test flight at 0705---at 0718 they called me and left a message on my phone that it was unsafe to fly the ridges and they were shutting down for a while and maybe for all day. With the weather the way it looks I'll bet they can't fly until Monday afternoon sometime.
We should have the remainder of the seed in Monday and start mixing Tuesday---they can go back to flying seed in seriousness Wednesday if everything goes well.
The lab tests on the straw should be back Monday--so straw could start arriving Tuesday as well---that'll make things a little hectic if it happens. Two seed planes flying seed and three helicopters straw bombing the areas all flying by Wednesday. That's a lot of aircraft doin' a lot of work.
CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED---LIFE'S GOOD!!!!
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