Mike Meadows from Los Angeles submitted this image from:

The DC-10 makes a drop on the Powerhouse Fire. The plane is 200 feet above the desert floor. The fire burned in excess of 30,000 acres in June of this year near Santa Clarita, CA. The fire burned for nearly two weeks and destroyed 30 homes.

Lancaster, CA. The massive DC-10 air tanker makes a drop of retardant only 100 feet off the ground as a huge brush fire roars out of the mountaines and into the desert of the Antelope Valley. The fire burned well over 30,000 acres and destroyed some 30 homes. Mike Meadows photo