PREVIEW

Overhead view of an HH-60W Jolly Green II search and rescue helicopter assigned to the 101st Rescue Squadron based out of Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, N.Y., gathers water from Suffolk County New York Wildwood lake, March 8, 2025. The HH-60W made 28 bucket drops in 5 hours, dumping approximately 14,100 gallons of water on the blaze. The HH-60W made 28 bucket drops and three New York Army National Guard UH-60M Black Hawks belonging to the 3rd Battalion, 142nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, based at MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma N.Y., dropped a total of 28,380 gallons of water on the blaze.