“watching it over the internet. very amazing see the choppers and planes doing their drops. they keep calling it an aerial ballet. that fits! :)”
We were in Costa Mesa a couple of hours ago, and saw a plane landing at John Wayne (OC airport).
Landing opposite from the normal direction, because of the wind diretion.
We had earlier thought the planes might be flying out of Ontario.
Probably using both.
some really touching stories they showed earlier. the lady that was the manager of the mobile home park, had lived there 29 (?) years and lost everything except an American flag that the firefighters gave back to her. a little scorched, but still pretty much intact, and she was thankful for that.
the air tankers use Palmdale Fox Field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Field
or
Riverside Ryan Air Tanker Base http://www.rvcfire.org/opencms/facilities/RyanAir/
Airtanker 910 (DC 10) uses the old George AFB....or SoCalLogisticalAirport
http://www.logisticsairport.com/page.aspx