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A sky crane helicopter makes a water drop on homes below at the Sesnon Fire north of Los Angeles
14 Oct 2008
Source: Reuters
 
A sky crane helicopter makes a water drop on homes below at the Sesnon fire north of Los Angeles October 14, 2008. The Sesnon fire at the northern edge of the heavily populated San Fernando Valley doubled in size, to nearly 10,000 acres (4,050 hectares), as storm-force Santa Ana winds howled through the bone-dry brush of canyons and foothills overnight. REUTERS/Gene Blevins (UNITED STATES)
REUTERS/GENE BLEVINS


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A helicopter drops water during a brush fire in the Sepulveda Pass on the western edge of Los Angeles in the early morning of October 23, 2008. One hundred acres burned. ...




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