National Guard dumps 340K gallons of water to contain largest CT wildfire, now more than 120 acres

Helicopters from the Connecticut National Guard have dropped hundreds of thousands of gallons of water on the more-than-100-acre wildfire on Lamentation Mountain in what continues to be an uphill battle during the worst drought the state has seen since it began tracking drought data in 1905. “That means that our state is a tinderbox,” Gov. Ned Lamont said at an afternoon news briefing at the ...