Helicopter scoops pool water to douse wildfire

[Leading Observer]

If he's protecting your house, the least you can do is let him use your pool 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/10261315/Helicopter-scoops-pool-water-to-douse-wildfire.html

[Gondor]

Looks as if he was flying very close to that house. could have been very nasty.

Gondor

[Martin H]

fair play to the them.

Making use of a very convenient source of water.

[strilekawk]

In California the fire services can legally use any body of water to fight fires, that means your pool is fair game in a wildfire. My sister and brother in-law have property in the Tehachapi mountains near where I live, they make sure that there is water in the holding tank on the ranch for the bambi buckets, the firefighters have keys to the property and have a refurbished barn set aside for those guys to get some rest and shelter from the heat. Needless to say you know what ranch is very well protected.

[ChernayaAkula]

Looks like the fire was barely a few hundred metres away.  Don't think there was a whole lot of complaining.