Chief Warrant Officer 5 Bruce Pulgencio, right, of Headquarters-Headquarters Company, 40th Combat Aviation Brigade, California Army National Guard, performs a mission brief with Capt. John Farrell, military helicopter manager, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) after a two-hour water bucket mission July 13 in the Garza Fire in Kings County, California. Pulgencio and Farrell’s crew was one of five CalGuard crews battling the Garza Fire, one of nearly two dozen wildfires burning California in mid-July 2017. (Army National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. Eddie Siguenza)

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