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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...