Air Force Lt. Col. Bill Green, 115th Airlift Squadron, California Air National Guard, prepares for takeoff aboard a C-130J Hercules equipped with the Modular Airborne Firefighting System during a mission to fight wildfires raging across Texas, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, April 19. MAFFS is capable of dispensing 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in under 5 seconds. The wildfires have spread across various parts of Texas and have burned more than 1,000 square miles of land.

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