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A North Carolina Army National Guard crew drops water using a Bambi Bucket onto fires nearby Myrtle Beach, S.C., April 23, 2009. Four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and crews from the North Carolina Army National Guard's Company C, 1st Aviation Assault Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment, based in Salisbury, N.C., have been deployed to use the orange-colored buckets to help extinguish the wildfires.

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A North Carolina Army National Guard crew drops water using a Bambi Bucket onto fires nearby Myrtle Beach, S.C., April 23, 2009. Four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and crews from the North Carolina Army National Guard's Company C, 1st Aviation Assault Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment, based in Salisbury, N.C., have been deployed to use the orange-colored buckets to help extinguish the wildfires.

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