A Day Water Bucketing with Helicopters

In Canada, thousands of aircraft are deployed every year to help fight the spread of wildfires. If fighting fires was a warzone, the water bucket would be the most effective weapon. Water is simply dipped from the most appropriate nearby water source with the bucket and then strategically release onto the predetermined area to minimise the spread of a front, or to completely extinguish a hotspot. On this day, we were extinguishing hotspots that were still present from a fire in the previous summer. Early in the video I have a malfunction that disabled me from releasing the water, which I soon fixed on the ground and then continued on with the task, hitting flagged areas of concern. At the end of the video i go over why it probably malfunctioned in the first place. 00:00 start 00:01 setting up the bucket 00:46 startup 01:42 takeoff 02:38 looking for targets 03:00 looking for water source 03:45 first dip 05:04 bucket malfunction 06:44 round 2 7:17 first drop 08:16 second target 09:30 trying deeper water source 11:40 new targets 13:09 new water source 14:03 last drop 15:01 packing up the bucket 16:30 picking up the fire crew 18:12 travel chat 18:44 Bucket rectification 19:05 how the Bambi Bucket works 20:49 testing new bucket configuration 23 by Chayce Beckham, https://t.lickd.co/Lv01eBOL0GZ License ID: xnDJmnEJPqb Stressed Out by twenty one pilots, https://t.lickd.co/A2XQoxNRRkg License ID: m8NDPyZqNYp