It turns out that the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has produced a series of videos they call Cal Fire TV. Here are a few of them.
Getting air tankers ready for the fire season.
Cal Fire firefighters receive the Medal of Valor (Dec. 14, 2009)
Defensible Space Public Service Announcement (May 4, 2009)
(VIDEOS NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
Other videos include:
Cal Fire Inspects for Defensible Space
Cal Fire Readies its Seasonal Firefighting Force
Congratulations to Cal Fire for these excellent videos.
I found it interesting that the narration for each of the three videos that are embedded above begins with the words “Every day…” or “Every summer…” But they never expected that these three, produced months apart, would be assembled as a group and viewed consecutively.
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And while we are on the subject of videos, here is one that has NOTHING to do with wildfire. It was shot by Ana Marie Cox, a contributor for Air America and a frequent commentator on news and political shows, including the Rachel Maddow show. It features “bad camera work” and her dog Skeeter, who is enjoying his first snow in the Washington D.C. area. I think Skeeter is about 7-8 months old. The video was probably shot with an iPhone.
Before you watch it, consider yourself warned that Jake Tapper, who may be Ana’s friend Jake Tapper the ABC news correspondent, left the following comment on You Tube about the video:
I just accidentally watched this entire video. Do not make the same mistake I did.
