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Firefighting Choppers Take Risky Flights

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August 1, 2007

Fighting fires with water-dropping helicopters requires very sharp skills. Besides the smoke, pilots of the choppers have to brave shifting winds and tricky terrain — and still fly low enough to drop the water at a height at which it can extinguish flames.

Hope Stockwell reports from Montana Public Radio.

 
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