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There are six Erickson aircrane/skycrane helicopter water bombers from America operating in Australia at the moment. Elvis is, by far, the most famous, having saved 300 homes in Sydney in 2001, and a famous waterdrop that saved 14 trapped firefighters during those fires.

They have become almost an icon here - people battling fires looking above in immense gratitude as Elvis (or one of the others - but people call them all Elvis) comes overhead.

1 posted on 02/12/2009 3:26:49 PM PST by naturalman1975
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I’m happy to see that California does something good in the world.


2 posted on 02/12/2009 3:32:25 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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3 posted on 02/12/2009 3:37:34 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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It is so tragic, I’m glad that Salvang is able to help. Catching the people who are setting these fires should require a sentence of either death or a lifetime of hard labor. How long has this fire devastation been going on, it seems many, many weeks. God Bless the Australians, they are strong to stand up to all this tragedy.


4 posted on 02/12/2009 3:41:32 PM PST by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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