1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,400 Speaker 1: Oh. 2 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: We would be getting up normally about five six and 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 2: try and be sort of on the line around seven. 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 2: I guess. 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 6 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: But time's a funny thing out there, because you know, 7 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: you just you just get up and your work, you know, 8 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: like it's usually it's about a twelve to sixteen hour day, 9 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: depending on what you're trying to achieve. 10 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever worked that hard. You should 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: come with us sometimes. Do you think these hands cut 12 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: out for that? 13 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 2: They will be by the end of it? 14 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? I bet? Wow. Okay, and that's for five days straight, 15 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: you say, yeah. 16 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: That's where in Manitoba. That's what we're working out in 17 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 2: the field five and then the helicopter would come and 18 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 2: take us back, and then we would go and have 19 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: what we called a reset, have a shower, and get 20 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 2: prepared for the next stunt. 21 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: Oh, I see right, And then you beck out again yeah, 22 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: oh yeah, okay, got yeah, yeah, yeah. What communication did 23 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: you have with the outside world. 24 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 2: In some places there, so they've actually got quite a 25 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 2: good network cell network over there. 26 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: Okay, so you could still scroll your Facebook at night. 27 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 2: In some places you could have one or two bars, 28 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 2: but generally there was no We were so far away 29 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 2: from anything. There was no no communication at all, but 30 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 2: we did carry what we call in reaches, which are 31 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 2: a portable communication device. 32 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 1: Yeah right, some pretty cool cat that you got to experience. 33 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: There's one photo you showed me is of there's different 34 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: size helicopters and there's a there's a berg boy. He's 35 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: one task would dropping the dropping the water from above. 36 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's generally in the aviation industry there's three 37 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: types of helicopter. So you've got light a light helicopter, 38 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: and that'd be like your squirrel back in New Zealand, you. 39 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: Know, they're the ones that Dock was around in. 40 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then and then a bigger one would be 41 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: something like people might recognize a uh one Irocois or 42 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: something like that or a modern equivalent of those. And 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: they are mediums and they are our transport helicopters generally 44 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 2: for moving cruise around with all their gear, and they 45 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: do do water bombing as well. And then there's the 46 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: heavy helicopters and they are basically things like their picturers 47 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: of Chinook helicopters. So he's gotten underslung load probably about 48 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: just over three ton that he's able to put, yeah, 49 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 2: on the fire and really accurate to They're very very 50 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: good machines. 51 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: Yeah right, would you stand underneath it for some reprieve 52 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: from the heat? 53 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 2: You try and stay as far away as you can 54 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 2: from the drop because it will smash trees, bring trees 55 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: down on top of you. Just that volume of water 56 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: coming out. 57 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: Okay, right, yeah, a safe place to be. Yeah. 58 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: The trees are particularly big hazard, probably one of the 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 2: greatest hazards, even even more so than the fire, if 60 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: that makes sense, because because the roots are so compromised, 61 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: they're kind of like a buttress roots those bruce trees, 62 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 2: and when they burn, they basically just sitting there waiting 63 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: for the wind to blow them over. 64 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: So oh wow, yeah, a real. 65 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: So we have to as we're walking through, we're assessing 66 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 2: the trees as we go. 67 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you get caught out and in the stay, 68 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: No we care. 69 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 2: So each crew has a chainsaw. 70 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,279 Speaker 1: Operator, yeah, and their role is really. 71 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 2: Sort of do forward assessment and and manage those hazard 72 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: trees by removing them as we go. 73 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, Okay, I see in this photo here 74 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: as a we squirrel. He looks cute. Yeah, I feel 75 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: you like that? Yeah, Yeah, you see some cool wildlife 76 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: you do. 77 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get to see a moose or was 78 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: pretty keen to see mouse. 79 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: But what about a grizzly beer. 80 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: No grizzly bears down there? 81 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: Black beers. 82 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: They do have black beers. And one of the challenges, 83 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: you know, as the wildlife, I saw snakes. We had 84 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 2: to dig our chili bans into the ground so to 85 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 2: keep them cool. Obviously for that period of time, the 86 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: easiest thing to do is dig a hole. All our 87 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 2: food was always away from where our sleeping areas were, 88 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: as was our cooking areas, so we just generally put 89 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 2: a big tarp up in the trees and cook under 90 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 2: that would build a bench with the saws and stuff. 91 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 2: But we had to be careful because beers will come 92 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 2: close if you leave your food laying around, so they 93 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 2: will be Yeah, you get a visit from Yogi and 94 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 2: we didn't, but definitely some of the other crews did. 95 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: Have really visiting Yeah. Geeesh, that'd be a bit unsettling. Yeah. 96 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: I remember when I Amber and I went to the 97 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: US a few years back and through Yosemite Park, they 98 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: would have these special rubbish bins. We almost had to 99 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: decide for the lock to open it, so the beers 100 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: couldn't get. 101 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: Him, because beers are awfully clever, right, Yeah, So we 102 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: used double lined rubbish bins with a piece of rope 103 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 2: and strung them up in the trees. So so the beers 104 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 2: couldn't get to them. Well they probably will be that 105 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 2: they can climb, so yeah. But yeah, and we only 106 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: had one ripped open. Boy, it wasn't wouldn't have been 107 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: a beer, but it would have been some type of mustard. 108 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh my gosh.