Rising violence in the past week, including fire from helicopters, has left the UN's observer mission in tatters.
November 26, two Pakistani border posts about half a kilometer from the Afghan border came under heavy fire from NATO helicopters that had strayed across the border into Pakistani airspace.
It's a battlefield where you have naval shore support fire coming in, helicopters operating and ordnance flying.
Militants claimed 35 hostages died on Thursday when Algerian military helicopters opened fire as the Islamists transported the hostages around the gas plant.
Then came the fire trucks, the helicopters, the orders to evacuate.
An EU official said the new mandate would allow warships or helicopters to fire at fuel barrels, boats, trucks or other equipment on beaches, according to Agence France-Presse.
But fire information officer Mike Cole says what's really needed are more helicopters and more experienced fire crews.
More than 8, 400 personnel, 578 fire engines, and 79 helicopters are operating on wildfires around the United States.
He's not sure he knows what freedom feels like, but likes the idea -- even if his three-room green stucco and brick home shakes every night from the pounding that Hellfire missiles fired by Marine Cobra helicopters, cannon fire from gunships and light armor deliver on Iraqi positions on the other side of the Euphrates.
An incoming Indian unit is bringing artillery and attack helicopters greatly increasing the UN's fire-power.
So the congregation started meeting in MacArthur Park, with police helicopters buzzing overhead, drug dealers loitering nearby, fire engines screaming past.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano stated that the government would send Self-Defense Force (SDF) helicopters to the Fukushima plant to put out the fire that was causing the smoke.
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Four helicopters and 37 Los Angeles firefighters were assisting in that fire, the department said.
Soon, the helicopters touch down, and our Rangers immediately come under fire.
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In addition to more than 20 local fire departments, the National Guard was expected to fly in two helicopters on Monday to help tame the flames.
The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, a regularly updated compilation of facts about the war, said in its latest update Monday before this crash that 67 American military helicopters have gone down since May 2003 and that enemy fire had downed at least 36.
Planes dropping water and retardant, along with six helicopters, were trying to create a perimeter and contain the fire.
The U.S. military in Baghdad said recently that all four of the helicopters lost in the past two weeks were shot down by enemy fire.
And now Libya is embroiled in the worst violence to rock the Middle East during the current wave of uprisings, with 41-year ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi using snipers and helicopters to shoot down protesters in the capital city Tripoli and sending fighter jets to fire missiles at rebel forces.
The previous day, America had complained that one of its helicopters, carrying earthquake-relief supplies in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, came under rocket fire presumably from the militant groups.
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National Guard helicopters were flying to the scene Monday morning and will drop water from a nearby lake onto the fire, said Perrin Anderson, a spokesman for Sevier County.
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