Sorry I zoomed in too much on this one but anyway this is one of the helicopters that was helping out on the Condon fire over the weekend.  It is a tanker.

 The crew is getting it ready for work the next day. They say it is about the size of a box car . . . . BIG anyway.

When this big boy comes on the scene the crew and all the water they can bring with them put out the fires or at least slow the fire down.  I took these pictures on Tuesday evening after it had stopped raining at about 8 pm.  There were also two other helicopters on the landing field that had buckets ready to go, too.  There were about 140 fire fighters on this fire also. Thanks to everyone for their hard work to contain this fire.  My hat is off to all of you .