I'm just amazed on how many variants of aircraft was used to fight this fire.

Well done explaining what happened. The aerial ballet of aircraft was neat to watch and the ground crews did an excellent job

Excellent documentary with outstanding firefighting by South Metro Fire.

Hey @South Metro Fire Rescue PIO , you could do a video about PulsePoint. You could give an overview about the different calls you have and which units normally respond to them. Added to this you could explain the abbreviations for the vehicles and neighbour fire departments. Keep up your amazing work, it's really interesting to watch your videos and to learn about your Fire Department. Best wishes, stay safe! Luca 2nd try ;)

This is my 2nd season on medical leave fighting wildfires and it kills me to not be able to help fight theses wildfires, but amazing to see all the men and women who are working there tails off like it's there own home there protecting, but that's what we do no matter who's property it is we do everything possible to protect it. Awesome Job everyone be safe

Thank you to all who helped fight this fire! We have family in that area. Thank you for your care! 🔥

I followed this incident on Pulse Point and Twitter. Great job by Eric keeping the public informed of what was going on! This is a great after action review of the incident.

Thank you so much for all your swift efforts in tackling this wildfire. My brother and his family have a home in Backcountry that backs into Skydance Dr, and my mother also has a home a few blocks away from him closer to Wildcat Reserve Parkway. Watching this all unfold from my home in California was quite nervewracking, and this video is a great overview of the incident.

Used to live a block over from the terminus & walk the dogs around the "dip station" & the aerial coordination was amazing to see... Especially the 2:53 footage of the lead plane's targeting puff followed exactly by the slurry bomber... And watching the KDVR feed of the large yellow copter dragging the heavy bucket on the long chain barely missing the chimney stacks on those mansions... A very interesting retrospective - thank you for the production and the service to the community!

Good work! After our last fire season down here in Australia its crazy to see how hard-core your response to a fire this size is.

@SouthMertoFireRescuePio Eric and Connor I appreciate the feedback back to the question I asked what video Is coming for next week. You guys are Awesome!

I love how you guys post calmly and honestly then you see the news and they act like the world is on fire. Kind of sad they benefit off things like this.

You all do an incredible job of firefighting and communicating with one another and the general public. Well done!

10:09 Hell yeah, it's awesome to see old P3 Orions being repurposed as fire bombers as a former US Navy Orion crewmember. E: also, kudos to the Huey pilots with the Bambi buckets, the MD-87 tanker, the Baron tanker spotter, and to that lone Air Tractor pilot fighting the blaze as well. Your efforts aren't in vain.

Great to see how air assets and ground crews work together. Eric... also appreciate your tips on how to implement protective measure ahead of time.

Amazing video glad to hear everyone was ok. Very shocking how many units and aircrafts were used

Hi, my dad works for south metro and asked me if i wanted to come with on the fire. I’m glad that i decided not to because then i would have been there all day. Thx for all the work u guys have done😀🙃🤗😷

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Great video. I sure do miss my wildland days when I was younger in the early 90s. Great air drop footage.

Ah, was listening to scanner.... 50+units 400+Acres

I had my scanner on for most of the fire. Great job SMFR and all other agencies involved!

Amazing job Brothers great video. Stay safe

You know, I follow this channel for a while now and I noticed your heavy emphasis on urban-wildland-interface firefighting both in the apparatus and in training. Until today I wasn't really sure why that is, because 84°F (29°C) and a bit of a dry spell usually isn't enough for big vegetaion fires, especially not in areas with only low vegetation and no trees or bushes. But when I saw on this video how freaking windy it apparently gets on the hills, I immediately understood. Wind is the biggst factor in the developement speed of a wildland or forrest fire. I guess I didn't have it on my radar before because I was a firefighter in the alps, so hills like that are never the top peaks and rarely see winds like that...

Fantastic work by all the firefighting crews!

Man....you are so good ! Love ya all !

Great job definitely some skilled Pilots working on that fire and also for all the ground crew great job

good work in getting that wildfire under control , does south metro do any scribe burns to reduce the risk of wildfires in your district? also were concern with smoke related injuries due , high amount of smoke at the fire ?

Any chance of South Metro or the surrounding jurisdictions getting their hands on one of the new Firehawk choppers?

I’d love to work for SMFR. Such a professional Dept

Nice, fast teamwork. from everyone.

Kind of concerning having so many aircraft operating in such close proximity. I assume that there is some kind of incident air traffic control ?

Nice job. The residents should be very proud of their fire department.

Can we take a moment to appreciate the little planes in firefighting? All the big air tankers get the attention but they aren’t even allowed to fly without the smaller lead plane. Also the fire maps they showed were only possible because a Colorado state modified pc-12 made the maps using the sensors on board.

What do you carry in your web gear as a PIO? Also where’d you get your eyelet for your camera for a leather radio strap?

Eric what radio strap do you wear?

Can we get a Fleet Friday for that communications truck they were using to look at the aerial footage (at 4:40)? I bet there's a ton of interesting technology in that vehicle!

A fire in my city went on for three days and burned 8 houses and 3,500 acres before it was contained completely. Good job knocking that beast down guys!

Please do a Fleet Friday segment on Safety Officer vehicle. Thanks.

Are you guys going to post the Day of a life of a paramedic.

Cant wait

The best fire department I know

Do they have someone assigned to communicate directly with the tankers and the helicopters? Almost like an Air Force TACP/JTAC Or are they just given General locations by command?

Wouldn’t the wind created by the helicopters blade cause the brush fire to get pushed out more?

I remember seeing the smoke from castle pines

Excellent work to the brave First Responder's and the Skillful use of mutable aircraft. Scary situation, Job Well Done!

ok thank you

Impressive Flying Skills. Terrain Following Slurry Drops.

What exactly is the slurry? How is it different than just water use?

Great vid

As a former forest fire fighter in British Columbia it was nice to see the chemical and water bombers do proper drops. Ideally you want to drop retardant and water from 100 to 150 feet above the ground as it gives good dispersal and good coverage at that height. The higher the drop is the less effective the retardant and water become. Also good job on the bird dog plane guiding the bomber in for the drop was nice to see. Grass and low brush fires are the worst to deal with as even with a slight wind of 5-15 km/h the fire can move extremely fast and be almost impossible to contain without help from man made or natural features (roads, lakes, rivers and even plain old dirt with no growth on it). I do have a question though are there dedicated forest fire crews or is it mostly city fire fighters with basic forest fire training?

Good job pio Eric

My dad is a Lewisville Tx fireman

It’s cool when there like laughing getting cool patches then they get a call and the next vids become actually informing the community

7:33 house at top right is insanely nice

I was listening to this on pulse point

Can you do a tour of a 2019 tanker

Love this

Looks intense

I signed up for the fire department have any tips?

Omg love videos

Why was there a ladder truck at the fire

I was listening to the scanner when this came in

With that amount of aircraft I was expecting an Osprey up next or something

Question...Where do the slurry bombers fly out of for this fire? Do they still fly out of Rocky Mountain Airport?

i thought in the last vid there was going to be a day in the life? also great vid keep up the great work y'all

Dang

As he said sign up... use nixle and see if they have alerts for your area. If you have ways to download apps find apps to help you... for me I have an iPhone and I have 5 Weather apps 4 of them send alerts out. I have 6 American Red Cross apps, a police scanner, my state police app, safari and I am looking for others. They all helped me. I am only 15 and was able to stay up to date and be ready to help when the Midland Dams failed. Yes I did have to evacuate but that night it is believed to be a false evac but it was also better to be safe then sorry. Everything he said can, well, and have saved lives!

how did the fire started

What’s the red stuff that planes r dropping

Here we don’t do structure protection. It’s a waste of man power. Sprinklers are set up on the structure that create a bubble of humidity than the team leaves and goes to the next structure and sets up sprinklers and leaves. This repeats until all structures are protected. After the fire is put out all the sprinklers are collected back.

To be honest I'm comfortable with a 400 acre fire. The worst fire I've been deployed to is a 40,000 acre fire. Unfortunately my department is small and we only have 3 engines and 5 brush trucks. Our county is 974 square miles so its have and we only have 2 departments in our county which is FVFD and SBVFD

Hey south metro pio, I’m a volunteer emt in Maryland and I’m making a new table for my department with patches from different department/stations all around the us/world can you guys mail me some south metro patches for this project, thanks

Awesome video! So cool to see the airplanes dumping water and retardant on the flames!

Who is PIO 10 and 11

Omg i am lisen to the fire radio pio 10 are on a call

Maybe a fleet Friday on tanker 45 ?

OMG come onnnnn

Sign up for emergency notifications. Good luck with that. Too many times it fails. A total cluster fuck! It'll be UP TO YOU as to when to get the hell out of Dodge. Keep that in mind.

Good stop brothers and sister it could have been A lot worse

Nice Tats, Eric!

I don't care who you are, but wildfire fighting tactics with planes and heli are awesome as heck.

Eric, Can you remind people to take there Pet's if they have to evacuate.

Can you do a day of a life of a wildfire helicopter or plane driver or PIO?

Eric hurst I’m your Cousin