U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Thompson, a pilot with the 302nd Airlift Wing, U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, talks to reporters about the National Interagency Fire Center-directed movement of four military C-130s equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System from Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport here July 3, 2013. The discussion came after he and fellow MAFFS crew members arrived. A self-contained aerial fire fighting system owned by the U.S. Forest Service, MAFFS modules are loaded into the cargo bays of C-130 aircraft. Following USFS lead planes, military aircrews can discharge 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant from the MAFFS modules along the leading edge of a forest fire in less than five seconds and cover an area a quarter of a mile long by 100-feet wide. Until July 3, four MAFFS-equipped planes from Thompson's unit and the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard had been fighting fires from Peterson. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jared Becker/Released)
Staff Sgt. Jared Becker
Taken on 3 July 2013
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