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Butte Fire in Calaveras County CA, is where I just arrived to film

I am back filming with the Calaveas Consolidated Fire District, I just arrived. The Chief is on his way to pick me up and take me into the fire line. We had a big dump of rain last night, so It's not going to be what you've seen on Television, but let's see what we get. Chief Robitaille is also one of Sixteen PIO's for this incident, so we hope to get some great behind the scenes shots and footage for their series.  We are going to see if we can find a few of the guys from this photo on the line tonight, photos will be posted tomorrow morning before we go back out...be safe

Filming continues in Colorado

Late in the afternoon, a call came in for a roll-over. In Cortez, drive time on "G" road can be at least a half hour in the summer and an hour in the winter, that's way past the golden hour to save a life. In this case, the occupants of the vehicle self-extracated and were safe, but, as you 1st responders know, this is not always the case and it does affect you during these long drive times to want to get there to save a life...be safe.

Filming continues with the Cortez Fire Protection District in Colorado in 2015

Filming began in late July, the first call up once the cameras were rolling on the first night, was a medical call and the Cortez Firefighters were first on-scene and assisted in packaging up their patient and transferring her into the ambulance. Next, the first call of the morning was a motorcycle rider that ran into the back of a compact vehicle, the driver of the motorcycle sustained injuries.

Principal Photograph started with Calaveras Consolidated Fire on July 3rd

On July 3rd, we began filming our brand new series with Calaveras Fire Protection District in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains in California. 

Production started with us meeting up with Battalion Chief Kym Olsen from Calaveas at the Lake Fire in San Bernadino were he was deployed as part of the Incident Command Team. 

We met up with the Chief at the local airport where he was meeting up with the helicoptor scene assetment pilot.

 

 

 

Hi, I'm David Furtado, Dir. of Photography

Hi, I am one of the camera guys for the series. Actually, I am the Director of Principal Photography, but what's in a name. Anyway, this photo is of showing the Deputy of the Valleyview Fire Department in Alberta Canada, how to use our Canon 60d camera so as he could be 2nd camera on this remote shoot. You will see his work soon.

Much more to come with photos and stories about filming across North America.

Be safe.

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