Fighting fire with a drop of the bucket
A Minnesota Air Guard Blackhawk helicopter takes off from the Seagull Lake Guard Station, to help fight the Cavity Lake fire. The helicopter's bucket can drop 640 gallons of water at a time.
MPR Photo/Bob Kelleher
Mike Rynerson has spent the past 12 days dropping water on the Cavity Lake fire. He uses a UH 60 Black Hawk helicopter to scoop water from nearby lakes and drop it on the fire.
Rynerson is a chief warrant officer with the Minnesota National Guard. He and the flight crews have been very busy. Rynerson spoke with MPR's Greta Cunningham.
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