Equipped with the MAFFS II system, Leonardo's C-27J Spartan NG emerges as a versatile multi-mission platform which can ...

Reduced visibility from thick smoke, coupled with turbulence created by the fire's heat, can create perilous flying conditions.

I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how we do it.

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

A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal.

A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft on the Palisades fire has agreed to plead guilty to ...

Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.

Photos released by the agency showed that the drone put a large hole in the aircraft’s wing ... firefighters’ efforts to suppress this fire and actually get it contained,” Davis ...

McNally confirmed that the crew was able to land the Super Scooper safely, but said that the aircraft was out of commission for approximately five days as the Palisades Fire raged on. During the ...

A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft working on ... fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water onto a fire. The collision knocked the plane out ...

A man who was piloting a drone that collided with a firefighting aircraft working on the Palisades fire ... Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water onto a fire. The ...