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  • Air Force fighting fires at home

    07/29/2005 5:48:07 PM PDT · by SandRat · 1 replies · 423+ views
    Air Force Links ^ | July 29, 2005 | Tech. Sgt. Mike Spaits
    SAN ANOTNIO -- Guardsmen and reservists are used to international situations that call for them to put out fires. Now, they are doing it here at home -- literally. More than 60 guardsmen and four specially equipped C-130 Hercules from North Carolina and Wyoming Air National Guard units are battling blazes in the western United States, saving private property and lives during a perilous wildfire season that is keeping firefighters working around the clock. Aircrews from the 145th Airlift Wing and the 153rd Airlift Wing have flown more than 70 sorties this past week over Idaho, Oregon and Utah spraying...