Louisiana National Guard drops recycled trees for marsh erosion project By Spc. David C. Kirtland Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office NEW ORLEANS – The Louisiana National Guard once again participated in the annual Christmas-tree drop at the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans, Mar 13. The LANG’s State Aviation […]
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NEW ORLEANS—The Louisiana National Guard is continuing to assist the Department of Agriculture and Forestry with its aerial firefighting operations in the Vivian area, Sept. 9, combating wildfires threatening 30 structures. Yesterday, at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s direction, the LANG deployed four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to begin water-drop operations using helibuckets—large buckets carrying water suspended
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Louisiana Army National Guard water-drop operations continue in Caddo Parish BATON ROUGE, La.—After successfully suppressing wildfires in Caddo Parish, Governor Bobby Jindal ordered the Louisiana National Guard to begin additional aerial firefighting operations in the Vivian area, Sept. 8. The LANG’s firefighting mission ended yesterday due to the containment of the fire and successful suppression
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BATON ROUGE – Governor Bobby Jindal announced today that the Louisiana National Guard’s UH-60 Black Hawks have surpassed the mark of one million gallons of water dropped in the aerial firefight against the marsh fires in the Bayou Sauvage area. Governor Jindal said, “Our guardsmen have worked tirelessly to fight the fire and smoke so
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Five additional Black Hawks join the fight BATON ROUGE, La. – At the direction of the Governor, the Louisiana National Guard continued assisting the city of New Orleans with aerial firefighting and saw a significant impact in the marshes of the Bayou Sauvage area, Aug. 31. As of this evening, the LANG dropped more than
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BATON ROUGE, La.—At the direction of the Governor, the Louisiana National Guard began assisting the city of New Orleans with aerial firefighting in the marshes of the Bayou Sauvage area, Aug. 30. By sunset Tuesday, Guard helicopters dropped more than 116,000 gallons of water over small fires just north of Highway 90 and east of
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