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Fighting Fire from the Sky: The C-130 Hercules Are Saving California
Also read Trump Announces Plan to Rename North America’s Tallest Mountain Specialized aircraft, including aerial tankers ... of water or fire retardant in just seconds. The C-130’s ability ...
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MAFFS-Equipped C-130s Join the Fight Against Raging Los Angeles Fires
The U.S. Northern Command activated eight of its C-130 aircraft equipped with MAFFS (Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems ... to integrate military air tankers into a national firefighting ...
How California fights fires from the skies
Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.
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45 more fire engines, C-130 Hercules sent to battle California wildfires
Additionally, the U.S. Air Force Reserve out of Petersen Space Force Base sent a C-130 Hercules ... Palisades fire along the coast. The plane features a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System ...
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See what battling California wildfires look like from cockpit of a C-130 aircraft
Equipped with airborne fire-fighting systems, C-130 Super Hercules planes are flying missions over the wildfires in Southern California that started earlier this month. California Air National ...
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Inside the cockpit: National Guard air tanker attacks Hughes Fire
John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System ... into military C-130 aircraft without major ...
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See the US military's special C-130 Hercules water bombers that are joining the LA wildfire fight
When deployed as a firefighting aircraft, the C-130 can be equipped with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) unit to support other air tankers in aerial suppression. The MAFFS units ...
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High winds do more than spread fires — they keep firefighting aircraft on the ground
Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why they can't fly in certain conditions.
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See it: Photos capture aircraft helping combat the California wildfires
For instance, 10 Tanker Air Carrier said Monday ... The Air National Guard has flown C-130 Hercules planes "equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems" to the Los Angeles area, where ...
LA wildfires: Aerial firefighters leader says flames should be 'wake up' call
United Aerial Firefighters Association head Paul Petersen said the wildfires ravaging California could be among the most devastating in U.S. history, and hopes they "wake up" lawmakers.
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High winds do more than spread fires — they keep firefighting aircraft on the ground
where aircraft like the S-2T tanker can be refilled on the ground within minutes. Cal Fire also has seven new airtankers that were put into service in 2024 called the C-130 Hercules, which each ...