Modular Airborne FireFighting Systems crews training in Greenville, South Carolina this week expect to conduct flights over the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Rabun County, Georgia. Up to 15 practice flights with the air tankers per day may be conducted in which military C-130s will drop water on a target site approximately two miles south of Rabun Bald. In this tristate exercise, three other target sites may be used on the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina and Sumter National Forest in South Carolina.
Engines turning for the first #MAFFS training flight in #greenvilleSC pic.twitter.com/zH3LkGOahi
— MAFFS (@AEGMAFFS) May 4, 2015
Carolina-area #media: come out to view #MAFFS training & view a water drop @ 11:15 a.m. Call 910-975-0803 for info
— MAFFS (@AEGMAFFS) May 4, 2015
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Worst drought in 1200 years. Here is the SIGN that many acres, lives and property will be destroyed this summer. Have land management and fire agencies really done all they can do to moderate the destruction ahead? Or is it another year of “maybe it won’t happen”. Why wait to activate the Guard Units until the West is completely on fire again? Initial attack is the name of the game.
How many hundreds of millions of dollars will be saved and lives not destroyed if we can even stop a small percentage of evolving-dangerous wildfires from extending into the next burning period? (stupid thinking, it will probably rain all summer, here is my sign)
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