Fire Spotted by Student Helicopter Pilot on Late Night Training Flight

A bush fire had been started next to the river about a mile south of the Old Mill. It was around 1am and growing fast as it climbed up the side of the ravine. It was approaching houses and so we called it in from the helicopter and circled the houses to awake the residents.

Local TV news coverage: https://ktvz.com/news/2013/08/23/heli...

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00:00 Supposed to be a a routine night flight...
00:23 "Is that a fire?"
00:45 "Yeah that is..."
03:20 Trying to call using voice command...
04:00 Calling 911
04:40 "You are in a helicopter?..."
07:30 Give the GPS position
11:20 Exceptions to using cell phones in flight...
11:55 Also consider using ATC on the radio
12:30 Hopefully waking residents up to get them out of their house
14:20 Imagine the horror of waking up at 1am with your house on fire

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