Hundreds of Colorado firefighters are now helping in Los Angeles, and the USAF aircraft out of Peterson Air Force Base is retrofitted to dump thousands of gallons of water in minutes.
Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.
Bernalillo, San Juan and Los Alamos Counties, as well as the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, will be deployed to Southern California on Thursday morning ...