Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Hands on Management: "Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia"

The Russian Superman. From RIA Novosti:
Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia
Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took part in extinguishing forest fires in Ryazan Province on board an amphibious firefighting airplane.

The Russian head of government was the co-pilot for half an hour aboard a Be-200 plane scooping up water from the nearby Oka River and dumping it on raging forest fires some 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
He dumped approximately 12 tons of water on each of two fires, extinguishing both completely.

Putin initially sat in the cabin in front of a thermal imaging monitor together with Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ryazan Governor Oleg Kovalev....MORE
See boys, that's how it's done. Sergei, you're up.