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A special bucket rigged to a Chinook allows crews to drop 2,000 gallons of water onto a fire. It is attached to the aircraft by a 120 foot cable and has a valve that lets them control how much water they release at a time.

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire

In early March at Yakima Training Center (YTC) there wasn’t any smoke or fire. In fact there probably wasn’t anything dry enough to start a fire if you tried. So why were members of Company B, 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation, dumping buckets of water around the training center? Well, it’s like this. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. And once there’s smoke and fire it’s too late to start training to put the fire out.

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