ROUND LAKE — Two New York Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters conducted water bucket training Tuesday in Round Lake.
The helicopters, based at Army Aviation Support Facility #3 in Latham, scooped water out of the lake in buckets slung under the helicopters and then dumped the water back into the river. The training is part of an annual requirement to prepare to fight forest fires.
The containers, called Bambi Buckets, are a trademarked name for a collapsible water buckets made by SEI Industries, a Canadian company. They can dump 660 of gallons of water on a fire at a time.