Grass fire along the Bow River

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On Friday afternoon, around 4:00 pm, we had just turned west off the McKinnon road, onto 22X, when we noticed a significant amount of smoke to the west.

We recognized the smoke as a grass fire, and it looked like it was on the eastern outskirts of Calgary. However, the closer we got, the more we realized it was in the city.

This dramatic photo of two helicopters with water buckets, scooping from the Bow River, is courtesy Dan Jackson, a Calgary fly fisher.