Advance helicopter alert: National Guard Black Hawk at JTF tomorrow

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(2013 photo of Black Hawk over West Seattle, courtesy Jameson)
We have an advance alert from the Seattle Fire Department about a helicopter you might notice in the area tomorrow: SFD spokesperson Corey Orvold says a National Guard Black Hawk helicopter is expected to land at SFD’s Joint Training Facility on the southeast edge of West Seattle [map] sometime Wednesday. Orvold says the crew’s planning to land in order “to familiarize themselves with the JTF.” Firefighting is one of the roles Black Hawk helicopters have with the Guard.

miws January 5, 2016 (11:28 am)

I believe it was later in summer 2013, plus skimming the article related to the Black Hawks’ appearence back then indicates this was a separate incident, I was on the bus cruising through the adjacent Park and Ride.

There was a chopper there, maybe G-1 or G-2(?) doing rescue practice. There were 3 or 4 firefighters on a platform of some such, that was dangling well below the chopper, and well above the ground.

As I saw it swaying back and forth, I thought “No thank you. No way I could do that!”. But, I am very grateful there are people out there with the courage to do so.

From my perspective, and only a few seconds to observe, it appeared this was a totally flat platform. But, sometime later, I saw something somewhere that showed that there are “sides” that come up at an angle.

But still, “No thank you, there’s no way I could do that” ;-)

Mike

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