An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, top, and a UH-60 Black Hawk take to the skies after collecting water from Paradise Lake in Butte County, Calif., July 11, 2008, during a firefighting mission. More than 1,000 Army and Air National Guardsmen and 20 aircraft have mobilized to help fight wildfires in Northern California. The Pave Hawk is from the 129th Rescue Wing, California Air National Guard out of Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif., and the Black Hawk is from 1st Battalion, 140th Aviation Regiment, California Army National Guard out of Los Alamitos, Calif. DoD photo by Sgt. Robert Davison, U.S. Army.
