The 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard ... Guard Bureau’s decision was inevitably going to leave one MAFFS Guard unit without upgraded C-130s. This Wing’s strategically advantageous ...

And even the activation of the Nevada Air National Guard MAFFS-equipped C-130's is a sign of just how dire the firefight has gotten. The aircraft are almost always available to firefighters ...

RENO — The National Interagency Fire Center requested on Wednesday a C-130 aircraft from the Nevada Air National ... Fire Fighting Systems (MAFFS) is replacing the 153rd Airlift Wing out of Wyoming ...

The MAFFS that were located with the 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina Air National Guard will now move to the 152nd Airlift Wing of the Nevada National Guard. MAFFS are specialized ...

(News 4 & Fox 11) — A Nevada Air National Guard C-130 plane is set to deploy ... is the second military unit to activate with MAFFS this year. The 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National ...

For the Nevada Air Guard, the 152nd Airlift Wing's "High Rollers ... Air tankers can help build lines of containment with retardant. The MAFFS aircraft can drop up to 3,000 gallons of fire ...

The Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems program was instituted in 1971 as a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense. The MAFFS system can be installed inside C ...

More than 1,850 Guard members from California, Nevada and Wyoming were activated ... Modular Aerial Fire Fighting Systems are in the air. The MAFFS-equipped aircraft, which drop fire retardant ...

WASHINGTON – More than 600 California National Guard troops have been ... week that the California and Nevada National Guards were each contributing two MAFFS, with U.S. Northern Command adding ...

(California Air National Guard/TMX) Once a load is discharged from a MAFFS-equipped aircraft ... and the 152nd Airlift Wing, Reno, Nevada. U.S. Transportation Command activates these aircraft ...