Frank Smith, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, and Airmen from California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing and Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing listen to the morning briefing during firefighting operations at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, April 21, 2011. The airmen maintain and operate the Modular Airborne Firefighting System housed aboard a C-130 Hercules which is capable of dispensing 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in under 5 seconds. The wildfires have spread across various parts of Texas and have burned more than 1,000 square miles of land.