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Members of 302nd Airlift Wing from Peterson Air Force Base will spend much of the next few days in the air over California’s Channel Islands National Air Guard base gearing up for what could be a busy fire season.

Air National Guard firefighting training session, will do water drops with C130 at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station 5-9 May 08. They will also be giving a talk, a tour, a demonstration of the planes and letting us talk to experts.

California Governor Orders Additional Resources and Personnel to ... Government Technology, CA - 2 hours ago The Governor's Executive Order mobilizes critical firefighting resources and personnel to save lives and homes statewide. This order directs the California ...

Pilots prepare to fly into battle against fire Ventura County Star, CA - 13 hours ago Air crews from the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System are doing their annual training at the Channel Islands facility this week. As part of the training, ...

MAFFS Teams Train In California KKTV 11 News, CO - May 7, 2008 The nation's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or "MAFFS" teams are standing by for fire season. Members of 302nd Airlift Wing from Peterson Air Force ...

CHICAGO, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Michelle Kaufmann, award-winning architect and green living expert focused on thoughtful, sustainable design, opens the doors to the first mkSolaire(TM) home ever built as part of the original Museum of Science ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A new kind of farm is popping up. Tucked away on small plots on America's back roads, it cultivates no soil or seed. Rather, it nurtures curiosities about everything from porn to pinochle expressed in a nearly endless sequence of ...