Redding getting Ready for the Pres!

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When i went to  FedeX today there were around 25 Secret Service men standing around shooting the breeze. They were taking up all the parking places. Apparently the President is scheduled to fly in on Air Force One tommorrow for a funeral and to tour the fire areas. After I left the Office I told them to move thier cars that they were taking up Customer Parking and pointed out all the parking available in the fields if the really needed to park there.

Anyway the Presedent missed the most spectacular thing about the fires...the Canadian Fire Plane. I happended to see it fly over head.

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In Portugal we use canadian planes to fight fires.OMG! when i see them "landing" in the river, i feel so scared !!! Then they fly just over my head..i can see the pilots .Our canadian panes are Yellow . WE share them with spanish.See this link, please:http://images.google.pt/imgres?imgurl=http://cm...
Fires are the one thing that all countries, all peoples have in common. I understand they charge around $11,000/ day just to have it parked on the lake ready to go when the smoke settles so they can go to work...That's the standby charge. Prices go up when they actually are working.
I don't believe Canada has any major fires going right now or the Canadian planes wouldn't be down here. It's a way to help offset the costs of equipment and crew that would normally be sitting on thier butt.
Thanks for the link, that was an interesting story. It was hard to grab though. You ought to try http://www.tinyurl.com . In Internet Exlorer I have thier link they provide to go in favorits. it will grab the current url of the page you are viewing and convert it to a short url that doesn't get cut off in emails and stuff.