Navy Chief Aviation Electronics Technician Rexford Sackett looks down on miles of burnt terrain in San Diego, Calif., as he and fellow sailors prepare to drop water on the blaze from a MH-60S Seahawk helicopter on Oct. 23, 2007. Sackett is assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 85 that is providing helicopters specially equipped with a 420-gallon extinguishing trough used to dump water on San Diego's ongoing fire disaster. The blaze has already forced more than a million people from their homes.

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