Some more photos of the real beginning of the fire season this summer. The Anahim Lake fire bust was pretty exciting, as my crew was the first on scene, flying into the lightning storm, assessing all the new fires, obviously there was some very extreme fire behaviour.

Laying on the runway at Puntzi as our helicopters take off for the night


Check out the fire taking off behind me near Anahim Lake


From Rank 1 to Rank 5 in 15 minutes, as I watched from the helicopter


My crew member Wes loading our gear after narrowly surviving a lightning storm the following night while camping near our fire


Safely in at the Eagle's Nest resort we watch the fires rage into the sunset across Anahim lake, the loon doesn't seem to mind