{"id":22327,"date":"2014-08-16T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22327"},"modified":"2014-08-16T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T07:23:03","slug":"paf-dispatches-huey-ii-to-help-fight-baler-forest-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/paf-dispatches-huey-ii-to-help-fight-baler-forest-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"PAF dispatches Huey II to help fight Baler forest fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22328\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Huey-II.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22328\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Huey-II.jpg\" alt=\"Huey II (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Huey-II.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Huey-II-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huey II (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Air Force (PAF) on Saturday deployed another Huey II helicopter to help combat the ongoing forest fire in Sitio Diguisit, Barangay Zabali, Baler town, Aurora Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was from the Air Force&#8217;s 505th Search-and-Rescue Group, PAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Enrico Canaya said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Huey II, which was fitted with firefighting equipment, was deployed last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Canaya said that the aircraft and its crew immediately performed three sorties and dropped 58 &#8220;Bambi&#8221; drops in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p>Each &#8220;Bambi&#8221; bucket is equivalent to five drums of water.<\/p>\n<p>Canaya said that their &#8220;Bambi&#8221; bucket operations are still ongoing as of Saturday morning under the supervision of the Tactical Operations Group 3 commander Lt. Col. Aristotle Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>This is in coordination with Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police and other government agencies in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Air Force (PAF) on Saturday deployed another Huey II helicopter to help combat the ongoing forest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}