Ely team helps fight forest fires from sky

Ely team helps fight forest fires from sky

ELY — Blake Freking struggled to recall what day of the week it was Wednesday as he briefly paused to discuss the team effort mounted to slow the spread of the Camp Home and Jenkins Creek wildfires from the air. Small wonder. As an aviation officer for the U.S. Forest Service, the past four days of battling a pair of fast-spreading fires from the Ely Air Attack Base have been a bit of a blur.   A couple De Havilland CL-215T scooper planes had j…