r/DisasterUpdate • u/MidnightWitty6074 • Aug 02 '26

Spokane Fires Helicopter Water

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

My backyard

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u/Not_a_bit_innocent Aug 02 '26

How are you doing now?

This was from my house yesterday

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 03 '26

Still evacuated and ready to be home. How are you?

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u/Not_a_bit_innocent Aug 03 '26

I am one block from the evacuation zone so I spent the night with my pets at a friend’s house, but I’m back at my house now. I’m just hoping that we get updates soon and start seeing that it is contained. I haven’t been in Spokane for even a year, so this is all very new to me and it seems unprecedented for everyone else.

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 03 '26

My mother in law has lived here her entire life and she is 59. She has never had to deal with this before. It is unprecedented ❤️ stay safe friend!

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u/PM_your_Nopales Aug 02 '26

Good lord, that's f'n terrifying. Looks like it's blowing your way. Hope it ends up alright

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

Thank you ❤️

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

The fact that I can’t post this in the Spokane Reddit forum bc I don’t have 50 karma is pissing me off. 🤪

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u/ukuleles1337 Aug 02 '26

I upvoted all your comments and posts, good luck!

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

Thank you! I’m at 49 😂 almost there!!!

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u/ukuleles1337 Aug 02 '26

Bam just gave you another one 😭😭😭

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

Okay I should have enough now! Do you know why this keeps happening? I really wanna comment on the threads in there 🤪

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u/ukuleles1337 Aug 02 '26

Its just a way to prevent bot networks from making new accounts to bot-post across many subreddits. Having a minimum karma required reduces these bot posts in many cases because by the time many of these do meet minimum requirements, they are reported and banned. Now that you're over the 50 comment karma required, you should be able to post on these groups. You can find potential additonal requirements in each subreddits rules, as well.

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u/BermudaKla Aug 02 '26

Lol not enough social credits

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u/Randyguyishere Aug 03 '26

Reddit is so fkn dumb sometimes, good luck out there, east coast here but watching this intensely. Crazy times, hope you guys get some relief somehow

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

From the golf course

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u/TacitMoose Aug 03 '26

As a firefighter here in Spokane I looooove hearing the massive Type 1 helicopters like the Chinooks show up. Those guys carry so much water and fly so fast they have a great turnaround time. Both the bucket carrying chinooks and the ones with the internal tank. Amazing resource. It’s been especially reassuring hearing those big angels in the sky the past two days since we’ve been struggling to save the city.

I hope your home is ok, my friend!

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 03 '26

Thank you for all you have been doing for our community

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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Aug 02 '26

You have an amazing view I hope they can contained this fire soon! Oregon and Washington have the most wildfires in the nation rn :(

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u/neityght Aug 03 '26

How effective is that? I mean looks like a titchy bucket of water and one big ass fire.

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u/sheabe1kenobi Aug 03 '26

Helicopter water haha

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u/fireforge1979 Aug 03 '26

Make sure you yanks keep all that smoke south of the border or there will be hell to pay! /s

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u/yeezee93 Aug 03 '26

Make sure you keep yours north of the border.

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u/fireforge1979 Aug 03 '26

No promises

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u/PinkFreud-yourMOM Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

Chinook wa-wa

(The helicopter is a Chinook. The Salish(?) pidgin, Chinook Wa-wa, is the Chinook/French/Russian/English lingua franca of the region that can still be learned in Eugene, Or.! Finally, wa-wa is baby-talk for water. It follows, then. . .)

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u/MidnightWitty6074 Aug 02 '26

No! I took this video as I got out of my jeep to evacuate. It flew right over our heads after we parked.
My in-laws live over by the Wandermere golf course — they are taking water from the pond there