Guard Aviation crews helps contain wildfires across state

Since late July, aviation crews flew more than 55 hours above the Retreat Fire, dropping nearly 200,000 gallons of water on the 45,000-acre blaze. Additionally, crews dropped 122 buckets of water, nearly 78,000 gallons, on the Williams Mine Fire (Skamania County), Stranger Creek Fire (Lincoln County) and Upper Ruby Fire (Pend Oreille County) before the firefighting mission ended.