What’s a helitack crew? 🚁🚁 A helitack crew is a team of highly trained firefighters and their pilot who are transported by helicopter to provide rapid initial attack and assist with rescues—particularly in areas that are remote, rugged, or inaccessible by vehicle. Their aerial deployment gets them to the incident within minutes and begin suppression efforts right away. On the ground, they use hand tools, chainsaws, and other equipment to stop a fire’s spread, while the helicopter supports thei
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🚁 HELITACK CREW DISPATCHED 🚁 Brandvlei, Rawsonville VWS Helitack crew dispatched from Stellenbosch Air Fields to assist @Cape Winelands DM #vws #firefighter #helitack | Volunteer Wildfire Services
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Skip the morning commute and take a helicopter to work! Apply by November 30 to become a wildland firefighter. Can you hack it? Here's a quick look at the helitack program. www.wildfire.alberta.ca/jobs | Alberta Wildfire
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Do you think you could fly with a helitack crew? Our helitack crews are specialized firefighters who use helicopters to reach difficult-to-access locations. They can get to new wildfire starts quickly, especially where roads may not exist, and they assist with reconnaissance missions to map fires, terrain surveys, and search and rescue efforts. Working for a helitack crew is physically strenuous. Crews may be required to hike with heavy packs in rocky or steep terrain. They will also often camp
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Ride along with the CAL FIRE Boggs Mountain Helitack crew on a recent air rescue training operation. The CAL FIRE HAWK, a Sikorsky S70i firefighting helicopter, is also equipped with an external hoist for rescue missions. This specialized rescue technique involves highly trained firefighters being lowered from a hovering helicopter to an injured or trapped person below. Once secured to a harness or stokes basket, both the victim and rescuer are then hoisted into the helicopter and flown to a lan
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The VWS Helitack crew was called out with Leading Edge Aviation to assist on Wemmershoek Road on Saturday, 20 December 2025. The Cape Winelands District Municipality’s Fire Services responded to a fire on the Berg River side of the R45. The fire, which started along a road verge and was driven by very strong, hot winds, jumped the road and spread onto Wemmershoek Road. Multiple properties were placed at risk. CWDM deployed aerial resources, ground teams and multiple firefighting vehicles, with a
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Our Boggs Mountain Helitack Crew is going through Basic Helicopter Operations and Safety (BHOS) training this week, providing firefighters with basic knowledge and skills essential to our aerial firefighting operations. On Tuesday at the Calistoga Community Pool they focused on water egress training, vital to the safety of our personnel in case of an emergency. In this video Battalion Chief Phil Mateer, of CAL FIRE Tactical Air Operations, walks us through the training. | CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Na
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