Airmen with the 302nd Airlift Wing prepare a C-130 plane for installation of the Modular Airborne Firefighting System (MAFFS) in preparation for fighting the Black Forest fire Wednesday morning, June 12, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
One of two modular airborne fire fighting system-equipped C-130s at the Peterson Air Force Base flight line Wednesday before take-off.
One of two modular airborne fire fighting system-equipped C-130s at the Peterson Air Force Base flight line Wednesday before take-off.
One of two modular airborne fire fighting system-equipped C-130s at the Peterson Air Force Base flight line Wednesday before take-off.
Air Force Master Sgt. Tom Freeman, a load master with the 302nd Airlift Wing, sits inside a modular airborne fire fighting system-equipped C-130 at the Peterson Air Force Base flight line Wednesday as his crew waited on word of when to depart for Black Forest. On Wednesday morning, Freeman learned that his childhood home in Black Forest was burned to the ground.
