Louisiana Air National Guard

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 […]

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