Mike Eliason, PIO with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department got this excellent photo of Tanker 74, an S2T, dropping on the Happy fire Thursday afternoon.
At 7 p.m. local time on Thursday firefighters were making good progress on the 60-acre fire off Alisos Canyon Road north of Santa Barbara.
VegFire-Happy Incident- UPDATE- Per IC, fire is 60 acres & 50% containment. Investigator determined cause to be a hay harvesting operation. C/T 12:52 pic.twitter.com/3Dlev0RBp7
— SBCFireInfo (@EliasonMike) May 17, 2018
Stunning!
this photo seems strange to me. There is obviously a problem of scale of dimensions between the plane and the firefighter on the ground. Or, I,m too Old….
Regards.
It was taken from a long distance with a telephoto lens. That makes the perceived distance between the firefighter and T74 much shorter than it actually is and that is why the perspective seems off. Really nice pic.