A good reminder to stay away from helicopter and air tanker drops

Erickson Aircrane made a demonstration video to show what would happen if the entire load of 2,500 gallons of water was dropped in a salvo on a car.

A few years back we made a training #video for dropping #water on #wildfire. Here's a few clips of a "salvo," where the whole #helitank's contents more than 2,500 gallons – is dumped in one go. It is a rarely used maneuver, and this video shows why. Thanks again to @crater_lake_ford for letting us smash one of their #cars. // #testedandtrusted #EricksonAircrane #firefighting #EricksonInc #instaheli #avgeek #ford #donttrythisathome

A video posted by Erickson Incorporated (@ericksonincorporated) on Mar 14, 2016 at 11:22am PDT