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Aging planes being used to battle wildfires

Name: Aging planes being used to battle wildfires
Uploaded: 2014-04-15T08:35:00-0400
Duration: 4 min 14 s
Description: As wildfire season quickly approaches and with much of the West crippled by drought, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., is calling on the Pentagon to use military planes as air tankers. John Blackstone reports.

As wildfire season quickly approaches and with much of the West crippled by drought, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., is calling on the Pentagon to use military planes as air tankers. John Blackstone reports.