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A melodramatic video takes viewers wrong the cockpit of a California Air National Guard level being utilized to combat the increasing Hughes Fire successful Los Angeles County.
The footage shows the low-flying C-130J Super Hercules dropping occurrence retardant arsenic the flames were raging Wednesday successful Castaic, a assemblage adjacent Santa Clarita.
"Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems (MAFFS) are the U.S. Forest Service’s portable fire-retardant transportation systems and tin beryllium inserted into subject C-130 craft without large structural modifications to person them into airtankers erstwhile needed," the California Air National Guard said.
"They tin discharge their full load of up to 3,000 gallons of retardant successful little than 5 seconds, covering an country one-quarter of a mile agelong by 100 feet wide, oregon they tin marque adaptable drops," it added. "Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped craft and the craft lands astatine a tanker base, it tin beryllium refilled successful little than 12 minutes."
LA HUGHES FIRE ONLY 14% CONTAINED AFTER BURNING 10,000 ACRES
A cockpit presumption shows pilots from the California Air National Guard flying done the Hughes Fire successful Los Angeles County Wednesday, Jan. 22. (146 Airlift Wing/California Air National Guard/TMX)
The Hughes Fire has present burned implicit 10,000 acres and remains conscionable 14% contained, occurrence officials announced Thursday.
The fire, archetypal reported Wednesday morning, has rapidly dispersed owed to assertive winds that person plagued firefighting efforts for weeks.
The pilots attack the Hughes Fire successful Castaic, Calif. (146 Airlift Wing/California Air National Guard/TMX)
More than 4,000 occurrence unit are assigned to the Hughes Fire, authorities say.
"The upwind is what is predominantly driving this occurrence and its dispersed close now. A reddish emblem informing remains successful effect until 10 a.m. Friday," Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said successful a statement. "It remains a hard occurrence to contain, though we are getting the precocious hand."
Tankers driblet occurrence retardant connected the beforehand borderline of the Hughes Fire successful Castaic, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 22. (David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
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The blaze has forced immoderate 50,000 radical to evacuate, and it besides caused impermanent roadworthy closures connected Interstate 5 Wednesday.
Fox News' Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is simply a newsman astatine Fox News Digital.
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