Well it was a very painful and a very long firefighting season. The 2nd longest Military mobilization of MAFFS. Only the 1994 fire season went longer.

2012 was the first time MAFFS experienced any type of serious accident. The Military (4 total Squadrons and 8 aircraft) has operated MAFFS since the early 70s.

The MAFFS 7 crash outside Edgemont South Dakota claimed 4 lives. Pilot, Co-Pilot, Navigator and Flight Engineer. The two Loadmasters survived. After seeing the wreckage, I have no clue how they lived. The final report was released last week.

Now that Thanksgiving (what we consider the end of the Firefighting season) has come and gone, here is a look at what we did.

915 Sorties 877.5 flying hours 1008 drops 2,720,194 gallons

Somewhere late July or early Aug I dropped my 1,000,000 millionth gallon of red goop.