Retrofitted C-130 cargo plane can fly farther, faster and carry more fire retardant than other Cal Fire aircraft ...

If you see large military planes flying low over Angeles National Forest and dropping water north of Los Angeles this week, ...

This is a big deal,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, noting California has the largest civilian aerial firefighting fleet in ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Cal Fire officials announced the latest addition to the agency’s ability to fight fires from the sky.

The U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other federal and state fire response agencies will be conducting ...

The Table Rock Fire is the first time South Carolina has ever used a Very Large Airtanker. See what airplanes are fighting fires in North Carolina and South Carolina. South Carolina is bringing in ...

I'm a third-generation ground firefighter who ended up in the air fighting fire, so my career has come ... widebody airliners converted into tanker planes for a New Mexico-based company called ...

One of the "Super Scooper" planes aiding in the battle against the ... The collision occurred over the Palisades fire as the Canadair CL-415 aircraft was dumping water onto the blaze.

Local governments announced an agreement Tuesday to allow wildfire-fighting planes to rely on the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport hydrant system this season. The intergovernmental agreement was nearly two ...

Retrofitted C-130 cargo plane can fly farther, faster, and carry more fire retardant than other Cal Fire aircraft ...