An air tanker took several passes over a smoldering hillside in Los Angeles County on Friday afternoon and dropped red fire retardant on a blaze with “surgical precision,” CNN’s Boris Sanchez ...

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

Amid several viral videos of destruction, a footage of a DC -10 air tanker dropping around 10,000 gallons of fire retardant ...

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Hurricane Hunters ...

Two people have been arrested for flying unauthorized drones in the areas affected by the Eaton Fire, the Los Angeles Sheriff ...

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

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There is no extension to the Evacuation Warning zone at this time," wrote the Los Angeles Fire Department ... including at least one tanker, were deployed to the location about 40 miles north ...

“(Forty-five) of Los Angeles fire trucks have to go back to the fire department for 10 hours a day to recharge instead of fighting fires after refueling in 7 minutes,” reads the post.

The FBI said it is seeking info about the collision of an unauthorized drone with a firefighting aircraft flying over the ...

But, this time, the winds were calmer. "The winds were strong but they were not those 70-, 80-mph winds," Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony C. Marrone said. "The situation we're in ...

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