Air Force Master Sgt. Chuck Watkins, 115th Airlift Squadron, California Air National Guard, prepares to remove a fire retardant hose from a C-130H Hercules cargo aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System MAFFS at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, April 19, 2011. THe MAFFS is capable of dispensing 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in under 5 seconds. Wildfires have spread across various parts of Texas and have burned more than 1,000 square miles of land. Staff Sgt. Eric Harris

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