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at least five large wildfires are burning in California and the worst part of the fire season is actually just beginning with red flag warnings posted across the state tonight Chris Martinez takes us aboard California's top weapon for battling its biggest fires firefighters battling California's largest wildfires call this their big gun when you're up there trying to save lives and property it's pretty intense our K Smith Lee is the pilot of a dc-10 passenger aircraft that's been transformed into a powerful weapon against flames somebody that was very very smart way smarter than me decided let's put three tanks on a dc-10 together those tanks carry more than 11,000 gallons of fire retardant about nine times more than any other plane in the fleet all three tanks can be rapidly refilled 12 the 15 minutes these babies are full and we're going what makes this plane unique isn't just its payload but also how it's flown making fighter style turns just 250 feet above the ground you don't expe