Subsiding Winds Allows Air Assets To Fight California Fires
Credit: AP/WIDE WORLD
Fifty to 60 mph. Santa Ana winds prevented early deployment of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to suppress fires sweeping across hillsides and canyons north of Los Angeles to the Mexican border last week. But as conditions improved, aircraft played a major role trying to prevent property damage and...
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