Mr. Speaker. I would like to salute the Mountain Fire/Rescue 05018 Volunteer Fire Company from Calaveras County. CA. for their contributions and personal sacrifices in the humanitarian mission Operation SUPPORT HOPE to Goma. Zaire. in July 1994. These men saved an estimated 500.000 lives by ensuring that the Rwandan refugees in Zaire had fresh water to drink. The crew left California on July 23. 1994 and after an arduous 22.5 hour flight. they arrived in Goma. Zaire. From the moment they stepped ott the plane. they were hard at work. It was a horritic sight. Dead bodies filled the road from the airfield to the pumping site at Lic Kivu.
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