Wednesday, the Ventura County Aviation Unit first tested and demonstrated the ability of Copter 2, one of our county’s three Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawks helicopters, to drop 600 gallons of water from a Bambi Bucket. Read more in the VC Star article. View a video of Copter 2 in action.
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