{"id":298205,"date":"2019-04-25T06:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=298205"},"modified":"2019-04-25T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:06:59","slug":"helicopter-squad-contains-brush-fire-in-southern-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/helicopter-squad-contains-brush-fire-in-southern-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter squad contains brush fire in southern Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_298206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298206\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fire-pix-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Fire-pix-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-298206\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sailors assigned to the \u201cIsland Knight\u201d of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 pose for a photo after providing aerial firefighting for a brush fire that occurred in the Naval Magazine area of Santa Rita last April 22.<br \/>(U.S. NAVY \/PETTY OFFICER 2ND CLASS JORDAN CROUCH)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam\u2014The Guam-based \u201cIsland Knights\u201d of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 provided aerial firefighting for southern Guam, along the northeastern edge of Naval Magazine, when a brush fire quickly began to spread and threaten local homes of Santa Rita last April 21.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Navy Fire and Joint Regions Marianas notified HSC-25 that evening that the fire was out of control and HSC-25\u0092s assistance was required.<\/p>\n<p>The HSC-25 aerial firefighting was led by aircraft commander, Lt. Nicklaus Gfeller, and successfully contained the fire using 4,200 gallons of water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maintenance duty section did a fantastic job of quickly modifying the aircraft configuration to support fire bucket operations,\u201d said Gfeller. \u201che flight crew quickly found our rhythm to effectively drop water on the fire to contain it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident was the second firefighting request to HSC-25 in 2019 to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sailors work diligently day in and day out to ensure our aircraft are capable of 24\/7 support anywhere in the\u2026Marianas,\u201d said HSC-25 commanding officer Cmdr. Frank Loforti.  \u201cYesterday\u2019s aerial firefighting was one of the many examples of how rewarding their hard work can be. I could not be [prouder] of the Island Knight maintainers and flight crew this Easter evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HSC-25 provides a multi-mission rotary wing capability for units in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations and maintains a Guam-based 24-hour search and rescue and medical evacuation capability, directly supporting U.S. Coast Guard and Joint Region Marianas. HSC-25 is the Navy\u2019s only forward-deployed MH-60S expeditionary squadron. <em>(Amphibious Force 7th Fleet Public Affairs)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam\u2014The Guam-based \u201cIsland Knights\u201d of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 provided&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":298206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-298205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific","tag-guam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}