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

Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure ...

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

Specialized aircraft deliver strategic water drops and retardant lines to contain flames in California’s challenging ...

The people flying planes and tankers involved in dousing blazes face hot, sweaty, turbulent conditions — and the risk that ...

A video filmed from a fire-fighting helicopter dumping water on a fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles ...

Interviews with pilots paint a graphic picture of the struggle to maintain control of their ships amid one of the most ...

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

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

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

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

Three Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems, or ...