“But this is heat like we’ve not seen here before.”ĭETROIT - Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. “What we’ve heard so many times in these nine deaths I’ve seen this week is ‘Well, he knew it was hot and he was going to get the air conditioner fixed’ or ‘Oh no, he says he’s been through this many times he said he was going to be OK,’” she said. Stern warned residents at Monday’s meeting to protect themselves and to check on elderly relatives and neighbors. The temperature in Laredo was 105 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees as of 6:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. NBC News was unable to immediately reach the medical examiner’s office after business hours. The Associated Press, citing Stern, today reported two additional deaths in Webb County, which is on the U.S.-Mexico border. “These are unprecedented temperatures here.” And I think our county was caught a little off guard,” Dr. Laredo knows heat, Webb County knows heat. Over the last several years, KC-135 aircraft and personnel from Selfridge have supported missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe and the Pacific region.The blistering heat in Webb County, Texas, has led to the deaths of at least nine people in eight days, the medical examiner said at a county government meeting Monday. The 127th Wing’s 171st Air Refueling Squadron, which was set to fly the KC-135s during Tuesday's demonstration, conducted its first air refueling flight in September 2007, when it first became equipped with KC-135T Stratotanker aircraft.Ībout 300 airmen are directly affiliated with the air refueling mission at Selfridge. The KC-97 was flown by both the 4045th Air Refueling Wing and the 500th Air Refueling Wing at Selfridge into the mid-1960s. While the first military flight took place at Selfridge on July 8, 1917, the first aerial refueling aircraft, a KC-97 Stratofreighter, was not assigned to the base until January 1959. Army Air Service aviators accomplished the first aerial refueling on June 27, 1923, on a flight between Los Angeles and San Diego. "The support we receive from our community is second to none, and this series of flyovers provides us an opportunity to say ‘Thank you’ to our neighbors while also demonstrating an important part of the Air Force mission. Rolf Mammen, 127th Wing commander, in a statement prior to the flyover. “Our citizen-airmen are proud to serve as Michigan’s Hometown Air Force," said Brig. Other flyovers happened around the nation to mark the centennial. Other locations along the air route included Alpena, the Mackinac Bridge, the Sleeping Bear Dunes, downtown Grand Rapids The route started in Port Huron and was supposed to end at the Selfridge base in Harrion Township. The low humming of an aircraft could be heard over the Detroit River around 12:50 p.m., but there were no visible signs of the tanker and A-10s.Īirmen from the 127th Wing based at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, with about 1,700 military and civilian personnel, were scheduled to fly in formation from 10 a.m. "At least it's not pouring rain," said Rachel Paulson, 49, of St. "Once again Michigan weather gets in the way," he said. This would have been Lockyer's first time seeing a flyover in the city, if it weren't for the low visibility. "It was very stealthy," said Marshall Lockyer, 22, of Beverly Hills, who cracked the joke just after 12:30 p.m., when the aircraft were supposed to be visible in Detroit.
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