Fire fighthing helicopters have been employed to ferry water from the San Francisco Bay to dump on Angel Island. Watching this process is amazing. The helicopter is drawing the water from a very tiny beach on the Belevedere side of the Island and flying it up towards Fort McDowell. I wish I knew the size of the payload. It does not see that large. I saw the fire raging last night. Some friends from SFBAYADVENTURES.com took me on their boat to get a closer look. Circumventing the the blazing Island, we saw tress ignite, swaths of burning and huge billows of smoke. Definitely not an average night on the San Francisco Bay.