Forestfires are a PITA :)

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So finished off a tour up in north-west Sweden where a lightning strike or two set fire to one of the army artillery ranges.

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The struck out area was the fire right then, so a plan to meet it was devised.
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And violá a defense plan :)

There is quite a bit of forest up here and after the extremely hot summer it was primed for a rather explosive fire, and dear lord didn't it explode...

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Now there was just tons and tons of manhours of work by hundreds of fire service, army and an absolute heap of volunteers left.

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With everything from helicopters, planes to tracked infantry vehicles;

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With some mishaps and equipment failures;

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But finaly we put the darn thing out...

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It's amazing what people can do together :)

/Danny

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