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Air Force Capt. Elise Patrick, a pilot with the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 187th Airlift Wing, co-pilots a C-130 Hercules while looking down on a massive wildfire in Colorado, Oct. 16. As wildfires raged throughout the West — especially in California — National Guard members were called in to augment firefighters, protect property, provide real-time aerial images to incident command centers, drop water from helicopters and spray retardant on fires via the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, from C-130 aircraft.
201016-Z-QG327-0990.JPG Photo By: Tech. Sgt. Jonathon Alderman

Cheyenne, WY - Air Force Capt. Elise Patrick, a pilot with the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 187th Airlift Wing, co-pilots a C-130 Hercules while looking down on a massive wildfire in Colorado, Oct. 16. As wildfires raged throughout the West — especially in California — National Guard members were called in to augment firefighters, protect property, provide real-time aerial images to incident command centers, drop water from helicopters and spray retardant on fires via the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, from C-130 aircraft.


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