MAFFS 2 In Action

Posted 15 July 2010

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Photo by MSgt. Dave Buttner

A California Air National Guard C-130J with the roll-on/roll-off Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System 2, or MAFFS 2, system installed was used to respond to a fire in Riverside County, California, on 17 July 2010. The aircraft was requested by the US Forest Service through the National Interagency Fire Center after lightning caused a brush fire near Temecula. The C-130J Super Hercules crew flew one sortie for almost two hours and dropped 3,000 gallons of fire retardant on what had been dubbed the Skinner Fire. The 146th AW was the first to transition to the MAFFS 2 system in 2008, and it remains the only unit flying the new system on the C-130J Super Hercules.

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