The U.S. Forest Service, through the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, has ordered the three MAFFS aircraft operating at the Boise Air Tanker Base move to McClellan Air Tanker base near Sacramento, Calif., to assist the wildland firefighting effort in the western United States. Pictured here, a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 from the Air Force Reserve Command’s 302nd Airlift Wing drops a load of a retardant on the Lime Gulch fire June 19 in southern Jefferson County, Colo. Since their initial activation June 11 to fight forest fires in southern Colorado, MAFFS aircraft have made 479 drops using 1,211,631 gallons of fire retardant. This summer, they have fought fires in Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada. (Courtesy photo)
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