{"id":50353,"date":"2023-02-08T23:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T22:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=50353"},"modified":"2025-02-08T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:19:23","slug":"a-firefighting-helicopter-to-the-rescue-of-a-burning-train-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/08\/a-firefighting-helicopter-to-the-rescue-of-a-burning-train-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A firefighting helicopter to the rescue of a burning train in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the best inventions in history, the helicopter should always be mentioned. It is a type of aircraft capable of facing all kinds of missions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/02\/an-abandoned-uh-1-iroquois-helicopter-on-a-rooftop-in-a-post-apocalyptic-place\/\">An abandoned UH-1 Iroquois helicopter on a rooftop in a post-apocalyptic place<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/30\/blue-thunder-the-end-of-the-famous-helicopter-from-the-movie-and-tv-series-of-the-80s\/\">Blue Thunder: the end of the famous helicopter from the movie and TV series of the 1980s<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the most common missions for helicopters is fighting fire<\/strong>. Throughout the world there are many helicopters specialized in this type of task, but there are few occasions in which they are seen in a situation like the one that occurred on September 28 in Keene, California, when <strong>a diesel locomotive crashed. caught fire on the go <\/strong>A veteran Kent County Fire Department Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter rushed to the scene when alerted by the railway company. Coincidentally, a train buff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@rrphotographer65\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rrphotographer65<\/a>, was there filming when it all happened, the video is amazing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRAIN ON FIRE!!! BNSF RAILWAY DPU catches fire in Tehachapi! Full Video with footage of firefight !!\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QybUGVbYUC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looking for data about the helicopter I found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helis.com\/database\/cn\/49527\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helis.com<\/a> that < strong>the helicopter in the images, the N408KC, was built in 1967<\/strong> (its construction number is 9923) and <strong>served in US Army Aviation<\/strong> under serial number 67-17725. A jewel of helicopter that has been serving its country in different areas for more than half a century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the best inventions in history, the helicopter should always be mentioned. It is a type of aircraft capable of facing all kinds of missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17020,20878],"tags":[1045,2421,18420,10431],"class_list":["post-50353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-civil-aviation","category-trains","tag-bell-uh-1-iroquois","tag-california","tag-keene","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}