SSG Ge Xiong, UH-66 Black Hawk crew chief for the California Army National Guard’s Alpha Company, 1106th Theatre Aviation Support Maintenance Group, checks his 600-gallon water bucket prior to a mission in the summer of 2018 battling the Mendocino Complex Fires in Lake, Colusa and Mendocino counties, Calif. California Army National Guard pilots used helicopters to drop close to a half-million gallons of water in just over a week as the Ranch and River fires combined to become California’s largest wildfire in State history. California Army National Guard photo by SSG Eddie Siguenza
SSG Ge Xiong, UH-66 Black Hawk crew chief for the California Army National Guard’s Alpha Company, 1106th Theatre Aviation Support Maintenance Group, checks his 600-gallon water bucket prior to a mission in the summer of 2018 battling the Mendocino Complex Fires in Lake, Colusa and Mendocino counties, Calif. California Army National Guard pilots used helicopters to drop close to a half-million gallons of water in just over a week as the Ranch and River fires combined to become California’s largest wildfire in State history. California Army National Guard photo by SSG Eddie Siguenza