LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) firefighters and Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel are teaming up on Nov. 17 to conduct helicopter drills in in the Santa Monica Mountains to prepare them to better confront large-scale wildfires in the region in concert.
The day drill was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in Topanga. The evening drill scheduled in Malibu was set to involve the world’s largest helicopter-tanker, a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, a heavy-lift aircraft with the capacity to release 3,000 gallons of water with each drop, according to fire commanders.
