© Wood Wilkinson Arts 2009

The day the “Red Rain” fell on the Station Fire in La Canada, CA. is one I’ll never forget! There were helicopters and Orion P3 tankers everywhere - and then the DC-10 Super Tanker passed 500 feet overhead and dropped 12,000 gallons of Fire retardant over a one mile stripe! These hills were burning directly above a densely packed neighborhood - the neighbors didn’t object to a Big Jet that day!