Retardant drop

A small fire very close to my house last week gave me a ringside seat to watch the areal attack...in reality it was several miles away and while fires can travel that in a very short time the topography of the area would not have let it get to us...but we are all very grateful to the CAL (ifornia) Fire crews, both ground and air, for knocking it down before it reached any homes!
 it was the top hill at the very center/rear of this shot...