The kind of air support you want in a fight like that is helicopter gunships or the old "warthog, " the A-10.

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Colombia's National Police has world-class surveillance technology and a huge helicopter fleet to fight drugs, but is less good at dealing with ordinary crime.

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Between 40 and 50 homes in the area were evacuated as around 80 crew members and a helicopter arrived to help fight the blaze.

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When the fight was won, as he lay in a stretcher being loaded onto a helicopter, one of his teammates came up to shake the hand that Leroy had left.

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