Tragedy in Shell

All at once, a huge fire ball erupted. The flames were so large that you could feel the heat from our hangar. Not long after that, the airport fire truck raced by the hangar screaming with it's sirens blaring to begin putting out the large fire.

No, thankfully this ball of flame wasn't an aircraft, nor were any people involved. Every year or so the fire crews of the airport and nearby Puyo have test drills to put our fires. This time it was at the end of the runway. Airport workers were busy all morning preparing a pile of tires, wood, etc. to get the flames ablazin'. It was fun to watch.They were able to do this test because the airport was practically shut down all day due to poor weather. We have had 3 bad days in a row, which is unusual. We almost always have daily rain, but at least half of a day we can get something done. Luckily our flight schedule has been light, or we would really be drowning in backed up flights. As it stands now, we only have about 6 people stranded in the jungle that have been wanting to come out since Wednesday. Maybe tomorrow our on-call pilot can get the job done.