U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...

CAL FIRE lead planes guide U.S. Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve C-130 aircraft equipped with the Modular Airborne ...

A Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) equipped C-130 aircraft drops fire retardant on wildfires in Healdsburg, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The Department of Defense deployed ...

U.S. Northern Command has activated two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) Aircraft, one from the 152nd Airlift Wing in Reno and the other from the 146th Airlift Wing out of the Channel ...

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – On Thursday, U.S. Northern Command activated eight C-130 aircraft equipped with Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems and their personnel to support firefighting ...

PORT HUENEME, Calif. – The U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other federal and state fire response agencies will be conducting airborne firefighting training in the area from ...

Hello everyone, today I would like to tell you about the awesome Modular Airborne FireFighting System (also know as MAFFS) fitted into the C-130 Hercules plane . Footage Credit: US Air Force, DoD ...

CHEYENNE — Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or MAFFS, and associated personnel were activated by U.S. Northern ...

A Colorado Springs-based Air Force Reserve unit has joined the interstate effort to assist California firefighters in battling the wildfires currently scorching thousands of acres in the southern ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark ...