Conrad "Connie" Kalitta's air transport company is lending a hand to keep the air tankers battling the blazes.

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

Multiple aerial firefighting agencies have spent countless hours airborne since the outbreak of the Palisades and Eaton fires ...

Aerial support during the California wildfires has been grounded at times by high winds. Here's what the aircrafts do and why ...

Dangerous Santa Ana winds are expected to return to the Los Angeles area this week, potentially fueling the growth of new and ...

LOS ANGELES — A ... works for 10 Tanker, an aerial firefighting organization. He flies a DC-10 Air Tanker. He helped to drop more than 175,000 gallons of fire retardant during more than a ...

Salt water from the ocean is an option for fighting L.A.'s fires, but it's more complicated than simply going to the beach to ...

Dozens of water tanker trucks were also brought in to prevent hydrants ... “Life-threatening and destructive and widespread winds are already here,” chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Kristin ...

Firefighters are bracing for the the return of ferocious Santa Ana winds which are expected to fan the flames of wildfires raging across southern California, as the death toll climbs to at least 24 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Easing winds delivered a ... a spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department. The four largest fires around the nation’s second-biggest city have scorched more than ...