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

A dramatic video takes viewers inside the cockpit of a California Air National Guard plane ... are the U.S. Forest Service’s portable fire-retardant delivery systems and can be inserted into ...

Credit: Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo A fleet of firefighting aircraft sits at the Santa Maria Public Airport where the state’s extreme fire ... U.S. Forest Service’s Santa Maria Air Tanker ...

The villagers informed him that the fire likely started due to a short circuit in an electric wire. The Dantak team responded to the scene with two water tankers ... In light of poor air quality ...

Urban fires, by spreading various pollutants, have even more harmful effects than forest fires. Residents of Pacific ...

“Air support and other aggressive ... with calmer winds allowing the fire department’s helicopters to carry out water drops throughout the night, Kelliher said. When asked about potential ...

Inexplicably, in a country that possesses 362 million hectares of forest — the third largest amount in the world — our Royal Canadian Air ... water from lakes near a targeted forest fire ...

Quick calculations, coordination, communication and feedback were key in helping helicopter pilots hit their spots.

According to Reuters, most of Cal Fire’s tactical planes are North American Rockwell OV-10 twin-turboprop, multi-mission aircraft that served with the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force until ...

Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dousing the area with more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dropped ahead of the ...